Amos Nomore said:

Opium poppies are perfectly legal to cultivate in the US.

Ya think? Better brush up on your Federal Regulations:


[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 21, Volume 9]
[Revised as of April 1, 2006]
[CITE: 21CFR1308.12]


TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
CHAPTER II--DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

PART 1308 -- SCHEDULES OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES

Schedules
Sec. 1308.12 Schedule II.

(a) Schedule II shall consist of the drugs and other substances, by
whatever official name, common or usual name, chemical name, or brand name
designated, listed in this section. Each drug or substance has been
assigned the Controlled Substances Code Number set forth opposite it.

(b) Substances, vegetable origin or chemical synthesis. Unless specifically
excepted or unless listed in another schedule, any of the following
substances whether produced directly or indirectly by extraction from
substances of vegetable origin, or independently by means of chemical
synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis:

(1) Opium and opiate, and any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation of
opium or opiate excluding apomorphine, thebaine-derived butorphanol,
dextrorphan, nalbuphine, nalmefene, naloxone, and naltrexone, and their
respective salts, but including the following:

(2) Any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation thereof which is
chemically equivalent or identical with any of the substances referred to
in paragraph (b) (1) of this section, except that these substances shall
not include the isoquinoline alkaloids of opium.

(3) Opium poppy and poppy straw.


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