This question was prompted by the death of Stephen Hacala and recent comments from Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton to Congress about the regulation of unwashed poppy seeds. Hacala, a 24 year-old Arkansas man, was found dead in his apartment on April 3rd 2016 with no obvious cause. The only thing out of place detectives discovered was a 5-pound bag of unwashed poppy seeds (see Figure 1) along with a 33-ounce bottle filled with poppy seeds and water. The medical examiner later confirmed high amounts of morphine and codeine with a trace amount of thebaine in Hacala’s blood on autopsy.