California Pot Industry Warns of Imminent Collapse

[HankB]

So, how would one go about acquiring some good seeds?

That's a good question - it may not be too hard if you know where to look.

Back when I was in college, there was a newspaper article about a woman (then already elderly) who had been selling poppy seeds through ads in the back of various gardening magazines for decades. She thought these poppies were lovely flowers.

Opium poppies. 

She of course insisted she had no idea they were illegal - they were just flowers, after all - and IIRC there was no evidence she was involved in the opium/heroin trade beyond selling her flower seeds. Don't know what, if anything, happened to her legally. Even back then, the news media seldom published a follow-up piece. I suspect she was just told to cease and desist.

[BobR]

So, how would one go about acquiring some good seeds?

If I were buying seeds today I would use this guy

bob

[RoadKingLarry]

That's a good question - it may not be too hard if you know where to look.

Back when I was in college, there was a newspaper article about a woman (then already elderly) who had been selling poppy seeds through ads in the back of various gardening magazines for decades. She thought these poppies were lovely flowers.

Opium poppies. 

She of course insisted she had no idea they were illegal - they were just flowers, after all - and IIRC there was no evidence she was involved in the opium/heroin trade beyond selling her flower seeds. Don't know what, if anything, happened to her legally. Even back then, the news media seldom published a follow-up piece. I suspect she was just told to cease and desist.

My late aunt was very much a flower growing person, she grew several varieties of poppies, I suspect at least one or two of them were "opium poppies".  She also grew castor bean plants as they are very ornamental. One summer she had a particularly nice stand of castor bean plants that were 8' or better, probably 20-30 plants. That year they were getting regular low and slow helicopter fly-overs out on their remote farm. I was there for one of them and they flew over low enough we could feel the rotor wash. We waved and motioned for them to come on down but they didn't.

[RoadKingLarry]

So, how would one go about acquiring some good seeds?

I've got a friend that grows "breeding stock" for the local legal trade. He gets as much as $15 per seed for some of his stuff.

[HankB]

If I were buying seeds today I would use this guy

bob

Probably works out of a DEA field office.    (Kind of like buying Glock fun switches off of Amazon and expecting nobody will find out.     )