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Many secondary metabolites of plants have medicinal properties. It is their misuse that creates problems. Justify the statement with an example.

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Drugs like morphine and codeine (opium) have strong medical applications where morphine is a very strong painkiller, and codeine is effective in suppressing cough. Unfortunately, the flip-side to both these medicines is that they are highly intoxicating and thus are misused for this purpose. Such drug abuse makes a person hallucinogenic.

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