Is it legal to grow poppy flowers in the US?

Title says it all...a friend was telling me it is legal to grow poppy flowers (to make some opium), its just illegal to do anything but grow it or something....anyone know anything about this?

pretty sure if they find anything that could be used to make opium in the same house as the poppys they will do u for intent but pretty sure its legal to just grow

You don't make opium, you score the pods and out drips the opium.

yer but anything that sugests that u would be doing it would go against u. say if u had a knife and a jar in the room they would go ok ur making opium even if they wernt for that. o plus pretty sure its just 1 type of poppy iv looked into it a bit before. wouldnt mind growing some coca aswell lol

its more then one type and yes its legal to grow them but its illegal to extract the opium so as long as they dont find that and all there is are flowers youd be fine.


Opium poppy seeds - Papaver somniferum for sale



get them and grow them, good times man

isnt heroin made from opium?

yes it sure is

thought so so if u have anything used to make that aswell then ur getting done up the bum for a long time lol

not if everything you have is legal, youd have to have something illegal or be caught with the finished product.

it's perfectly legal just to grow poppies. i think actually taking the pods and slicing them makes it illegal. but i remember seeing just rows and rows of poppy fields out in...arizona i think? i was travelling.

Yes. Papaver somniferum and etc can be regularly attained from local seed companies, local nurseries, or from places like ebay.......easy to go, easy to harvest. buut then its work for the processing.

i know you can buy poppy seeds from ebay too...my friend got a whole box of them and he just makes it into tea

anyone have any good links on how to extract the opium? all ive heard really is that it oozes out and hardens and bam there is your opium...is there anymore too it?

camaro has a thread on here about it, look it up

Guess what the california state flower is my friend? the poppy

dont believe me? look it up

yea, the CALIFORNIA poppy, which has not narcotic properties whatsoever.

Pete, thank you for commenting on Keenly's ignorance. The papaver family is huge, but again does not support all the chemical properties like the somniferum varieties do. Yes, Keenly, there is even a Blue Himalayan Poppy, Meconopsis genus. And don't ask about the properties.........I guess I am just jaded by the fact I am a horticulturalist, and i hear those statements all the time.

petejonson said:

yea, the CALIFORNIA poppy, which has not narcotic properties whatsoever.

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did i fucking say it was?

how about before you go jumping on people

you think

gee with this make me look like an arrogant asshole?


i fucking made that post to point out a fact

good fact.