Another Legal Question: Opium Poppy Plant

[VTboy]

Last week I was at one of my cousins houses, and she has a small flower garden that she just planted some time ago. She planted it from seeds. Right now only the green stems have come up. So their are no flowers or anything yet, since it is still winter. So I asked her what flowers these were and she told poppy flowers. I asked her what seeds did she use, and she told me that she used the same seeds that she used for baking. She told me a friend of hers told her these seeds will grow if planeted and I guess they are correct. This is my question, since the one you use for baking are the opiuim poppy seeds and thus she is growing opium poppy is she commiting a crime. I am not sure if it is legal to do what she is doing. She is not using it for drug use just for a flower garden. She likes how poppy flowers look.

 

[arcenite]

who gives a f!ck

 

[VTboy]

These plants are in her front yard, so I was wondering if the police when they drive by would care when they see it.

 

[minendo]

Police wouldn't even know wtf they are when they drive by.

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

Originally posted by: minendo
Police wouldn't even know wtf they are when they drive by.

 

[oniq]

Growing poppy plants is not a crime. If you take the flower and open up the seed pod and try scraping it off to smoke it, that is illegal.

 

[DannyBoy]

Where's that stop posting sig gone :|

 

[DurocShark]

Originally posted by: oniq
Growing poppy plants is not a crime. If you take the flower and open up the seed pod and try scraping it off to smoke it, that is illegal.

The seeds commercially available are NOT the Opium Poppy. I'm not sure if they were genetically engineered (the opium part was bred out of the species) or they are different species to begin with, but the opiate bearing poppies are illegal in most states for anything at all.

The wild California Poppy doesn't bear opiates so you can go lay in a poppy field in Lake Elsinore, CA this spring and eat poppies all day long, and all that would happen is you'd fail a drug test the next day.

 

[VTboy]

Originally posted by: DurocShark

Originally posted by: oniq
Growing poppy plants is not a crime. If you take the flower and open up the seed pod and try scraping it off to smoke it, that is illegal.

The seeds commercially available are NOT the Opium Poppy. I'm not sure if they were genetically engineered (the opium part was bred out of the species) or they are different species to begin with, but the opiate bearing poppies are illegal in most states for anything at all.

The wild California Poppy doesn't bear opiates so you can go lay in a poppy field in Lake Elsinore, CA this spring and eat poppies all day long, and all that would happen is you'd fail a drug test the next day.

Actually the seed poppies that are found in food are the opium variety.

This is taken from McCormick's own site.

Poppy seed come from the Poppy plant, which is a tall annual belonging to the poppy family (Papaver somniferum L.). The tiny poppy seeds have an agreeable nutty flavor and are used as a condiment on rolls, pastry, and baked goods

The Somniferum variety is the opium poppy.

http://www.mccormick.com/productdetail.cfm?id=6434