The ruling states the Controlled Dangerous Substances Act "does not distinguish between seeds that have different levels of ...

All charges have been dropped against a Tulsa couple who were accused of selling poppy seeds online to a woman who died.

In Joël Penkman’s article “Small plants, big business” about the rise of plant poaching (Magazine, Life & Arts, January 25) my eye was caught by the name Robert Fortune, who Penkman tells us “brought ...

Poppies bring a delightful, delicate look to any garden with their tissue-like petals in spring. You'll be shocked to learn this is the best time to plant them.

I knew deep winter had arrived when the first seed catalog showed up in the mail. These winter missives were really harbingers of spring, with their glossy photos of plump tomatoes just begging to be ...

One product that the British could access in large quantities was opium grown in territories under their colonial control. The British response to address the trade imbalance was to flood the ...

According to research, consumption of contaminated poppy seeds have been associated with “opium-like overdose symptoms, such as reduced consciousness and respiratory depression,” and death.

The Exchange, on Seed Savers’ website, pairs the people who save heirlooms with those who want them, all for the price of postage. By Margaret Roach I’m several hundred heirloom bean varieties ...