For The "Never Talk To The Cops" File: "I guess you're here for the opium"

[angelatc]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/%E2%80%98i-guess-you-are-here-for-the-opium%E2%80%99-investigator-stumbles-across-dollar500-million-in-poppy-plants/ar-BBBwST5?OCID=ansmsnnews11


Cody Xiong cracked open his door, saw the investigator on his porch and 'fessed up, authorities say.

“I guess,” Xiong said, “you are here for the opium.”

The investigator wasn't. But suddenly, he was intrigued.

What followed was a massive opium bust, based entirely on a North Carolina poppy grower who thought prematurely that the jig was up.

His field contained about $500 million worth of opium-producing poppy plants, authorities said.

[Brian4Liberty]

May have been looking for cock-fighting evidence...


Investigators also found several chickens with injuries consistent with cockfighting, authorities said.

[Anti Federalist]

“I guess,” Xiong said, “you are here for the opium.”

Knothead...

[FunkBuddha]

FFS... /facepalm

[specsaregood]

Seeing as last I checked it was still legal to grow poppies, you just can't harvest them for opium it was completely retarded.

[Dr.3D]

Seeing as last I checked it was still legal to grow poppies, you just can't harvest them for opium it was completely retarded.

Yep, my poppies are just going into bloom. Pretty red ones. :)

[angelatc]

Seeing as last I checked it was still legal to grow poppies, you just can't harvest them for opium it was completely retarded.

(Papaver somniferum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papaver_somniferum)) is the strain that is illegal.

[phill4paul]

Yeah, just a hop, skip, and jump down the road from me. Idiot.

[specsaregood]

(Papaver somniferum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papaver_somniferum)) is the strain that is illegal.

Citation? I'm pretty sure all types are legal to grow for ornamental reasons

[Dr.3D]

Citation? I'm pretty sure all types are legal to grow for ornamental reasons
That's what I've heard. You just don't want to be caught cutting grooves in the seed pods.

[Anti Federalist]

Citation? I'm pretty sure all types are legal to grow for ornamental reasons

wiki is vague:

In the United States cultivation of poppies for food is illegal.[dubious – discuss] However, this is not typically enforced for poppies grown or sold for food or ornamental purposes.[14][unreliable source?] In addition, "Opium poppy and poppy straw" are also prohibited.[24] As the opium poppy is legal for culinary or esthetic reasons, poppies were once grown as a cash crop by farmers in California. The law of poppy cultivation in the United States is somewhat ambiguous.[25] The reason for the ambiguity is because the Opium Poppy Control Act of 1942 (now repealed)[26][27][28] stated that any opium poppy should be declared illegal, even if the farmers were issued a state permit.[29] § 3 of the Opium Poppy Control Act stated:
It shall be unlawful for any person who is not the holder of a license authorizing him to produce the opium poppy, duly issued to him by the Secretary of the Treasury in accordance with the provisions of this Act, to produce the opium poppy, or to permit the production of the opium poppy in or upon any place owned, occupied, used, or controlled by him.

This led to the Poppy Rebellion, and to the Narcotics Bureau arresting anyone planting opium poppies and forcing the destruction of poppy fields of anyone who defied the prohibition of poppy cultivation.[30][31] Though the press of those days favored the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, the state of California supported the farmers who grew opium poppies for their seeds for uses in foods such as poppyseed muffins. Today, this area of law has remained vague and remains somewhat controversial in the United States.[32] The Opium Poppy Control Act of 1942 was repealed on 27 October 1970.[33][34]

[Origanalist]

Citation? I'm pretty sure all types are legal to grow for ornamental reasons

Maybe you should grow a field of them to see. Just don't try to harvest opium and you should be ok.

[Origanalist]

And ya, what a idiot.........

[Swordsmyth]

Must have been using his own junk.

[surf]

"His field contained about $500 million worth of opium-producing poppy plants, authorities propogandists said."

original author needed some help

[tod evans]

"His field contained about $500 million worth of opium-producing poppy plants, authorities propogandists said."

original author needed some help

This equals $1000.00
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/e0/46/fa/e046fa4a42e72e4c4688042667d427df.jpg

[specsaregood]

Maybe you should grow a field of them to see. Just don't try to harvest opium and you should be ok.

If I did and the cops showed up, I certainly wouldn't refer to opium in anyway.

[angelatc]

Citation? I'm pretty sure all types are legal to grow for ornamental reasons

I could be wrong. It's been known to happen.

[angelatc]

wiki is vague:

In the United States cultivation of poppies for food is illegal.[dubious – discuss] However, this is not typically enforced for poppies grown or sold for food or ornamental purposes.[14][unreliable source?] In addition, "Opium poppy and poppy straw" are also prohibited.[24] As the opium poppy is legal for culinary or esthetic reasons, poppies were once grown as a cash crop by farmers in California. The law of poppy cultivation in the United States is somewhat ambiguous.[25] The reason for the ambiguity is because the Opium Poppy Control Act of 1942 (now repealed)[26][27][28] stated that any opium poppy should be declared illegal, even if the farmers were issued a state permit.[29] § 3 of the Opium Poppy Control Act stated:
It shall be unlawful for any person who is not the holder of a license authorizing him to produce the opium poppy, duly issued to him by the Secretary of the Treasury in accordance with the provisions of this Act, to produce the opium poppy, or to permit the production of the opium poppy in or upon any place owned, occupied, used, or controlled by him.

This led to the Poppy Rebellion, and to the Narcotics Bureau arresting anyone planting opium poppies and forcing the destruction of poppy fields of anyone who defied the prohibition of poppy cultivation.[30][31] Though the press of those days favored the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, the state of California supported the farmers who grew opium poppies for their seeds for uses in foods such as poppyseed muffins. Today, this area of law has remained vague and remains somewhat controversial in the United States.[32] The Opium Poppy Control Act of 1942 was repealed on 27 October 1970.[33][34]

This was my original source, but I'm not convinced it's accurate.

http://homeguides.sfgate.com/legal-grow-poppy-flowers-77641.html


Among the many varieties of poppies, only opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) is illegal to grow in the United States

[tod evans]

Learn;

https://erowid.org/plants/poppy/poppy.shtml