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Author: Phil StovellPhil Stovell Date: Oct 28, 2006 12:12
How come it's mandatory to wear a poppy - the source of heroin - when you
can get banged up for 14 years for growing a hemp plant - the
non-psychoactive relative of the killer psychotic cannabis sativa/indica -
without a license?
--
Phil Stovell, South Hampshire, UK
"They said I should not take him to the police, but rather
let him pay a dowry for my goat because he used it as his wife"
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Author: Edward Cowling London UKEdward Cowling London UK Date: Oct 28, 2006 12:26
In message stovell.org.uk>, Phil Stovell
stovell.org.uk> writes>
>How come it's mandatory to wear a poppy - the source of heroin - when you
>can get banged up for 14 years for growing a hemp plant - the
>non-psychoactive relative of the killer psychotic cannabis sativa/indica -
>without a license?
>
The Poppy grew in the field of France during the first world war.
--
Edward Cowling London UK
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Author: Phil StovellPhil Stovell Date: Oct 28, 2006 13:06
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 20:26:17 +0100, Edward Cowling London UK wrote:
> In message stovell.org.uk>, Phil Stovell
> stovell.org.uk> writes>>
>>How come it's mandatory to wear a poppy - the source of heroin - when
>>you can get banged up for 14 years for growing a hemp plant - the
>>non-psychoactive relative of the killer psychotic cannabis sativa/indica
>>- without a license?
>>
> The Poppy grew in the field of France during the first world war.
Heroin wasn't recognised as the killer it really is in 1918. It was
thought, wrongly, to be a useful medicine.
Body Shop rightfully received criticism when it released a line of
"beauty" products containing hemp extracts - a relative of marihuana - the
drug with roots in hell.
Surely wearing poppies legitimises drug abuse?
--
Phil Stovell, South Hampshire, UK
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Author: John RowlandJohn Rowland Date: Oct 28, 2006 13:36
Edward Cowling London UK wrote:
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> The Poppy grew in the field of France during the first world war.
Actually, it was Flanders Field, in Belgium.
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Author: ColCol Date: Oct 28, 2006 14:06
"Phil Stovell" stovell.org.uk> wrote in message
news:pan.2006.10.28.20.06.41.171537@stovell.org.uk...>
> Surely wearing poppies legitimises drug abuse?
LOL!
--
Col
That's your excuse for everything isn't it, being dead!
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Author: Sla#sSla#s Date: Oct 28, 2006 14:07
Edward Cowling London UK wrote:
> In message stovell.org.uk>, Phil
> Stovell stovell.org.uk> writes>>
>> How come it's mandatory to wear a poppy - the source of heroin -
>> when you can get banged up for 14 years for growing a hemp plant -
>> the non-psychoactive relative of the killer psychotic cannabis
>> sativa/indica - without a license?
>>
> The Poppy grew in the field of France during the first world war.
It was more the case that when the artillery eventualy battles stopped,
poppies were the first flowers to grow in the mud and the battlefields
became seas of red. Rather poetically some said that a red flower grew for
every man that fell.
Slatts
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Author: DVDfever DomDVDfever Dom Date: Oct 28, 2006 14:29
John Rowland wrote:
> Edward Cowling London UK wrote:
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>> The Poppy grew in the field of France during the first world war.
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> Actually, it was Flanders Field, in Belgium.
Okiley dokiley! :)
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Author: Norman WellsNorman Wells Date: Oct 28, 2006 14:26
In message stovell.org.uk>, Phil Stovell
stovell.org.uk> writes>
>Surely wearing poppies legitimises drug abuse?
>
Oh dear, education isn't what it was.
There's a big difference, Philly, between field poppies and opium
poppies.
Go look it up.
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Norman Wells
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Author: DVDfever DomDVDfever Dom Date: Oct 28, 2006 14:31
Sla#s wrote:
> Edward Cowling London UK wrote:
>> In message stovell.org.uk>, Phil
>> Stovell stovell.org.uk> writes>>>
>>> How come it's mandatory to wear a poppy - the source of heroin -
>>> when you can get banged up for 14 years for growing a hemp plant -
>>> the non-psychoactive relative of the killer psychotic cannabis
>>> sativa/indica - without a license?
>>>
>> The Poppy grew in the field of France during the first world war.
>
> It was more the case that when the artillery eventualy battles stopped,
> poppies were the first flowers to grow in the mud and the battlefields
> became seas of red. Rather poetically some said that a red flower grew for
> every man that fell.
Clearly looking for a good soundbite, rather.
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Author: MichaelMichael Date: Oct 28, 2006 14:53
Phil Stovell wrote:
> How come it's mandatory to wear a poppy - the source of heroin -
Opium (thus heroin) is a product of poppy species Papaver somniferum. The
poppy species worn symbolically in memoriam for the dead of war and which
grows in great profusion in places like Ypres and Flanders is P. rhoeas.
> when
> you can get banged up for 14 years for growing a hemp plant - the
> non-psychoactive relative of the killer psychotic cannabis
> sativa/indica - without a license?
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