11. On the legality of growing P. somniferum
- This is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan, Penguin Press, 2021. Pollen’s first chapter, titled “Opium,” is based on his 1997 article for Harper’s Magazine, written at a time when the Drug Enforcement Agency seemed to be shifting its focus to home grown opium poppies. If you’ve never grown opium poppies before, take a page from Dorothy and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and avoid fields of them!
- Michael Pollan, “Opium, Made Easy: One Gardener’s Encounter with the War on Drugs,” Harper’s magazine, April 1997. The article that inspired his book is available here: https://harpers.org/archive/1997/04/opium-made-easy/
- Anne Raver, “Growing,” New York Times, March 5, 1992: https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/05/garden/growing.html
- Margaret Roach, “An Easy Annual Poppy, Papaver Somniferum,” July 27, 2012 https://awaytogarden.com/an-easy-annual-poppy-papaver-somniferum/
- Margaret Roach, “Growing Annual Poppies, with Marilyn Barlow,” January 30, 2016: https://awaytogarden.com/growing-annual-poppies-with-marilyn-barlow/