Poppy Concoctions

sazci wrote:  
>It's an insane law - all poppies have opiates, and the perfectly legal 
>P. orientale is used in the trade when P. somniferum is unavailable.

The drug trade, or the garden trade?

>in the front yard can attract creeps, and people who will tromp through 
>your garden treasures to grab those pods.  :/

and Sean wrote:
>'garden variety' of P. somniferum does not actually yeild a usable
>form of the narcotic, nor is it very easy to extract in any case (you
>can't really just grind up the plant or squeese the 'juice' - it is
>far more complicated than that.  

 I give my Danish Flag pods to my neighbor, after the seeds have matured.
He  says he makes a tea of them.  Not being partial to drugs myself (I
don't even drink beer), I haven't tried it, but I notice even one small
overwintered pod makes him pretty loopy.  (He was using it for pain from a
tooth abscess.)

Barry_Garcia wrote: 
>
>I was looking at a packet of california poppies (E. californica) and it
>says "DO NOT USE FOR FEED". Are those seeds poisonous?

My neighbor says the pods can be smoked.  
This is all really hearsay, but one also hears that information wants to be
free.  Hoping I'm not calling too much attention to myself or my garden  :-|.

P.S.  Thanks, all, for the help on the lavender questions!
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