https://calwatchdog.com/2010/06/24/new-how-california-is-killing-us/ Wed, 25 Mar 2015 06:11:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://calwatchdog.com/2010/06/24/new-how-california-is-killing-us/#comment-1552 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:14:09 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=6060#comment-1552 Ross is correct. My mistake. Though the Golden Poppy is slightly narcotic, it’s not heroin narcotic. I corrected the text to reflect this.

]]> https://calwatchdog.com/2010/06/24/new-how-california-is-killing-us/#comment-1551 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:07:09 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=6060#comment-1551 Life in the Golden State would be a lot more interesting ifyou could make heroin out of California poppies, but you can’t. “Eschscholzia californica” is an entirely different species without the unique properties of the oriental poppy, “Papaver somniferum.” Not sure why they share a name, since they don’t even look much alike.

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