TASMANIA Police is investigating the theft of a significant quantity of poppy capsules from a regulated crop in the state's Northern Midlands.
The Department of Health has advised that poppy plants are toxic and ingestion can be life-threatening and should be treated as an emergency.
The alkaloids can cause convulsions and asphyxiation, and several people in Tasmania have died from ingesting them.
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