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Opium poppies
I thought this one would amuse some people.
Do you realise we all have these super hyper dangerous plants growing in amongst out garden flowers. We must all be terrified. ARGH! Danger Danger Danger ;-) South Wales Evening post. GRASS VERGE FLOWERS ARE DRUG POPPIES 09 July 2003 Opium poppies are growing in the grass verges in Burry Port. Visitors to the area have been remarking on the pretty poppies which line the roads. The Mayor of Burry Port Clive Howells even allowed some people to help themselves when they asked if they could take some of the poppy heads. He had no idea they were anything other than nice flowers. But council officers are now urgently removing the poppies after receiving expert advice about their true nature. The alarming discovery was made by Carmarthenshire county recorder and president of the Botanical Society of Great Britain Richard Pryce. Mr Pryce said last night: "I have advised the county's countryside officers Elwyn Hughes and Rosie Carmichael that they are harbouring in their vergespapaver somniferum which is restricted in some countries because it is used for making addictive narcotic drugs." The poppies run alongside Sea View Terrace and flank the link road to Baccia that runs behind Club Bach. A county council spokesman said: "We are taking urgent action to remove them. We are as shocked at |
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