Opium made easy: one gardener's encounter with the war on drugs.

From: Harper's Magazine | Date: April 1, 1997| Author: Pollan, Michael | Copyright information

A gardener recounts his decision to cultivate poppies and his growing worries about whether this violates US drug laws. He also describes the prosecution of author and poppy-lover Jim Hogshire. He believes the war on drugs has been used to violate civil liberties and freedom of expression.

Last season was a strange one in my garden, notable not only for the unseasonably cool and wet weather--the talk of gardeners all over New England--but also for its climate of paranoia. One flo...

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