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Rare poppy bust in Calgary
    #7233530 - 07/28/07 12:26 PM (16 years, 8 months ago)

Poppy bust in Calgary
July 28, 2007 - canada.com

Police have seized opium poppies capable of producing heroin from a Calgary home in what Canadian authorities are calling an extremely rare bust.

Investigators found 1,500 plants with an estimated value of up to $45,000 in a house in the city's northeast on Thursday.

It's not just rare in Calgary - it's rare nationwide, said RCMP spokesperson Sgt. Sylvie Tremblay. "We've never heard of such a seizure before," she said yesterday.

Because of the narcotics it can yield, opium poppies themselves are a controlled substance in Canada.

Gurdev Samra, 62, of Calgary has been charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking and production of opium poppies.

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Re: Rare poppy bust in Calgary [Re: veggie]
    #7234461 - 07/28/07 05:41 PM (16 years, 8 months ago)

:sips beer: yep

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Re: Rare poppy bust in Calgary [Re: veggie]
    #7234684 - 07/28/07 06:59 PM (16 years, 8 months ago)

Damn, that is pretty rare. I wonder if they were growing them hydroponically.

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Re: Rare poppy bust in Calgary [Re: Le_Canard]
    #7234734 - 07/28/07 07:20 PM (16 years, 8 months ago)

$45000??? Yeah fucking right...


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Re: Rare poppy bust in Calgary [Re: veggie]
    #7234871 - 07/28/07 08:17 PM (16 years, 8 months ago)

Problem is is that poppy seeds are not illegal anywhere in the world. Shows how stupid the Canadians are in the capital.

Pot seeds are very illegal but poppy seed business is a multi-billion dollar a year.

In the 1980s i9n Seattle, almost right down town, A whole empty block was discovered to have a giant one block poppy growth. Police said we did not know you could grow these here and then they burned the field down. Did not wait to find out who it belonged to. This took up a page and a half in the Sunday Seattle Times,

Maybe I can find the story.

mj

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Re: Rare poppy bust in Calgary [Re: mjshroomer]
    #8927545 - 09/14/08 06:51 AM (15 years, 6 months ago)

A lil' update on this...so sad.

from http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=ded7c710-9473-4376-a6d5-556f8974db48&k=39073

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Calgary man gets a year for growing opium poppies
Suzanne Wilton and Daryl Slade ,  Canwest News Service
Published: Tuesday, April 08, 2008

CALGARY - Gurdev Samra's garden of opium poppies once offered him a euphoric cup of tea, but on Monday it made him the first man in Canada to be convicted of growing the illicit plant.

Samra, 63, was handed a one year conditional sentence after pleading guilty to growing 1,200 opium poppy plants at his Calgary home, which was busted by police last July.

The judge took a dim view of the poppy garden, despite the fact cultivation of the plants was for personal use in tea -something Samra has done since he was a child in India.

"Clearly, there is no place in Canadian society for growth of this product," provincial court Judge William Cummings said. "It is completely offensive to the community . . . a loud message has to be sent."

Indeed, a local expert on the opium poppy said consuming the plant's seeds is far different than something like the medicinal use of marijuana.

"The idea of nipping these things in the bud is a good thing," said University of Calgary professor Peter Facchini.

Opium is a narcotic formed from the resin released when the pods of seeds are broken open. It used to make pharmaceutical drugs such as morphine.

But it is also an illicit drug, most commonly used to make heroin.

"Mr. Samra was using the product from the plants in his tea," his lawyer David Chow told the judge.

"He used it in his tea every morning, and again in the afternoon and evenings," said Chow.

"He has been in Canada for 16 years, the last seven in Calgary, but this is something he has used since he was a youngster in India," he said. "It is very much a cultural byproduct of his previous environment."

Nevertheless, the judge said although it was a unique set of circumstances, the matter was serious.

Cummings placed Samra under house arrest for the first four months of the sentence, then under a curfew for the last eight months.

He must submit to random searches of his person, vehicle and home, attend counselling for substance abuse, and abstain from alcohol and drugs.

Samra must also perform 50 hours of community service.

A second charge of possession for the purpose of trafficking was withdrawn following the guilty plea.

Facchini agreed that opium use is not uncommon in parts of India, where it is legally grown. He said there are likely others in Calgary doing the same as Samra.

"There's no doubt there are (others). You have a culturally very diverse country, and if you look into the popularity, or the use of opium as a recreational drug, culturally in India it's very common.

"Maybe they aren't as maverick," said Facchini, referring to Samra's growing of his opium garden in plain view of neighbours.

"This is a clear cut situation . . . you have to be cautious about plants like this.

"But we do have to be sensitive to the fact that, in other parts of the world, people don't view plants like poppy, khat or even marijuana the same way where it is used as a social thing, the same way we would use coffee."



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Re: Rare poppy bust in Calgary [Re: mycomon]
    #8927623 - 09/14/08 07:41 AM (15 years, 6 months ago)

what rubbish.


30$ a poppy?  What the hell kind of math did they use?  I really don't get how anyone is supposed to listen to the cops when they say such insane things.

Does anyone believe that crap?

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