My grandmother's poppies!
Okay, so my grandmother is 91 years old and she lives with me and I am her primary caretaker. She used to be a gardener back when she was physically able to do that kind of manual labor.
I've been getting the gardens ready for fall planting this weekend, and she asked me if I would prepare a small part of the bed so I could plant her favorite flowers, poppies. I didn't think much of it, and I told here I would do it, but then she showed me some pictures of the poppies she used to grow (she still has a ton of seeds she has saved), and I realized that they are most definitely Papaver somniferum (opium poppies), and now I'm not sure what to do.
She grew them most of her life and nobody ever noticed them, so it's probably safe, but what if somebody does notice? How much trouble am I going to be in? I know its a big deal if you scratch the pods to extract the opium, but I certainly won't be doing that. Does anybody here grow somniferum? Does anybody actually know the legal status of the plants when used strictly for ornamental purposes? I'd love to plant them for her, but I don't want to go to jail either.
Anybody have any thoughts?
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