"Steve" wrote in message
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Katra wrote:

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Question: Isn't it illegal to cultivate P. somniferum anywhere in the
United States? So why do they sell the seeds at the seed stores??

I've wondered that for years. I read an article in a garden magazine
that told about growing them. It said it was for people in Europe
because in the US they were not legal to grow. Right after that, I
saw them for sale in a Thompson & Morgan catalog.
I ordered some and grew them for about 2 years. I grew them in a
flower bed right near the street too. They were pretty. I got
compliments.

Steve


T & M bowed to U.S. pressure, and two years ago quit selling their "Hens and
Chicks" P. Somniferum. I wonder how much good that really did, other than
making some bureaucrats look like crusaders. Just another example of our
effective govenment.

You can grow poppies, just don't harvest the opium, as I understand it.