Report, if you have a problem with this page“ Curiously, growing Papaver somniferum in America is legal—unless, that is, it is done in the knowledge that you are growing a drug, when, rather magically, the exact same physical act becomes the felony of “manufacturing a controlled substance.” Evidently the Old Testament and the criminal code both make a connection between forbidden plants and knowledge. ”
Michael Pollan
From : The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
