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Subject: Poppy appeal.
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obi_jon 27.07.20 - 10:11am
Just not the one you might have thought.

[link]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53450688[/link]

There's a certain kind of unfortunate irony in the fact that the poppy is both the symbolically chosen flower worn in rememberence of the war dead and a directly contributing factor in so much conflict, misery and death.

War on drugs, or... War, on drugs?

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gt_tdi 27.07.20 - 10:45am
''He harvested his opium crop in May, now he is growing tomatoes.''

Swings 'n' roundabouts.


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lugus 27.07.20 - 10:56am
It has sweet FA to do with drugs. The reason the poppy was chosen is simple, 1 year after the end of WW1 vast swathes of the former battlefront of France and Belgium once a no mans land of death and destruction lay an endless field if wild red poppies. And you can make as much drugs from a red poppy than you can milking a Unicorn for rainbow juice * +

piggle 27.07.20 - 02:18pm
still lends itself to irony * +

zonino 27.07.20 - 02:21pm
one a holiday I film3d a friend as she ran through poppy fields. found out later she risked being shot if caught * +

cleancut 27.07.20 - 02:22pm
lugus that's not true, corn poppies (red ones) have various alkaloids including thebaine,morphine,codeine etc. * +

cleancut 27.07.20 - 02:26pm
The uk is the worlds largest exporter of medical heroin, weird isn't it? And medical cannabis * +

mikeymk 27.07.20 - 02:59pm
What you moaning about, at least we won and got to keep the fields * +

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