Is it permissible to eat poppy seeds (the poppy seed) used for decoration in pastries and sweets and available in Kuwaiti mills, especially since they are an ingredient in many recipes?

Poppy seeds (poppyseed) are permissible for use in pastries and other foods, unless their harm is proven or they cause addiction when consumed in large quantities, in which case they become forbidden. Poppy seeds do not possess narcotic properties. They are used as bird food and produce edible oil and a food flavoring. As for opium, it is forbidden due to its harm and its corrupting effect on the mind. It is extracted from the ripe seed pods of the plant, not from the seeds themselves.