Thursday, August 13, 2009

uncommon news - field of opium poppies found in Oregon

OPB News
Discovery Of Opium Poppies Has Law Officers Concerned
By April Baer
....McKnight is a Forest Patrol Officer for the Confederated Tribes of Grande Ronde. He was here -- on a remote, 40-acre clear-cut on tribal forestland, training some helpers for fire season, when he stumbled across a field of some 12,000 specimens of Papaver somniferum, the opium poppy -- gorgeous, and illicit. ....

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