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Samantha Lock

Warning after toxic poppy pods pinched from legal crop

Poppy capsules have been stolen from a legal crop prompting a warning of severe risk from ingestion. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

A "significant" quantity of poppy capsules looted from a legal crop may have made their way into the public domain with potentially lethal consequences.

The drugs were stolen from a regulated crop growing between Tunbridge and Campbell Town in Tasmania's Northern Midlands.

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