Legalizing Poppy cultivation...that is the way India is headed
By vanny
@vandana7 (98804)
India
October 3, 2018 11:54pm CST
How can an educated person suggest that?
Marijuana is different, and opium is different. Poppy plant allow for heroine too. And that can mean more addicts, more crimes at home and outside, not to mention more people employed in drug trade since there are no jobs for ever growing population.
We will be worse than Taliban. Taliban cared for religious dictat and did not grow that dreaded stuff.
This man Navjot Singh Sidhu is already guilty of killing a man in a road rage 20 years ago. Why on earth is he even allowed to be a politician?
Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu has supported an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader in his demand to legalise the sale and cultivation of opium in the state. The suspended member of Parliament from Patiala, AAP's Dharamvir Gandhi, a dcotor, has been pitching
7 people like this
7 responses
Our fate..
@Srbageldog (7716)
• United States
4 Oct 18
Poppy seeds and poppy seed oil also come from the "opium poppy." Are those food items illegal in India?
1 person likes this
@Freelanzer (10745)
• Canada
4 Oct 18
Hopefully it is just a suggestion and it doesn't happen
2 people like this
@vandana7 (98804)
• India
4 Oct 18
Opium is extracted from Poppy plant. You might have to confirm from your local authority about growing them legally. It also has some resin coming from it, from which heroine is extracted.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Papaver somniferum Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Clade: Angiosperms Clade: Eudicots Order: Ranunculales Family: Papaveraceae Genus: Papaver Species: P. somniferum Binomial
1 person likes this
.
@NormanDarlo (1071)
• Ireland
8 Oct 18
Morphine is derived from the opium poppy. Where is it supposed to come from if poppy cultivation is not allowed? Of course it must be strictly controlled - just like diamond mines and money-printing presses.
@NormanDarlo (1071)
• Ireland
8 Oct 18
@vandana7 It's a tough call to control something like this anywhere. But there are diamond mines in much less controlled countries than India, and every country has to print its money somewhere.
