Why do people say there is opium in this pastry?

its true it’s just the seeds. if you have a positive, they go back and test the levels and you pass, but yes you will get a first positive for poppyseeds.

Poppyseeds make you test positive for opiates.

There is no opium in your pastry, but poppy seeds are from the same family of plants and so can cause a positive test result.

http://www.snopes.com/medical/drugs/poppyseed.asp

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1112/will-poppy-seed-bagels-cause-you-to-fail-a-drug-test

etc.

@trailsillustrated ; so, in theory, I could eat a bunch of them and be ‘over’ the limit?

Yep. True true.

A lot of poppyseeds would make you test positive. One muffin, however, won’t do it. You’d have to eat muffins for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack in between all three for an indeterminate number of days to test positive off of lemon poppyseed muffins. A initial false positive might happen (as a remote possibilty) but you would not have an issue with a more advanced test.

Your friend doesn’t need to believe everything she hears.

no, you’d test positive. then, they’d go back over the levels- it’s alittle more expensive for companies to do this, but it’s easy to tell by level who’s really doing dope and who’s not.

Damn, I thought you were talking about Krispy Kreme.

Yes. The amount in the poppy seed muffin is enough for you to fail a opium drug test. The DEA is currently looking into this and is trying to remake it.