Opium poppy plants seized on Big Island

[Glen Miyashiro]

Opium poppy plants seized on Big Island

HILO, Hawai'i — A recent Big Island police raid on a marijuana-growing operation in Ka'u turned up a patch of 226 opium poppy plants, a crop so rare in Hawai'i that police initially weren't certain what they had found.

Greeaaat. Green Harvest was so successful at getting rid of pakalolo and replacing it with ice; and now we've got locally grown opium to deal with too.

[Miulang]

Re: Opium poppy plants seized on Big Island

I saw that story and immediately wondered if the DEA was now going to be scouring the countryside looking for any Afghani immigrants who lived on the Big Island...

Miulang

[craigwatanabe]

Re: Opium poppy plants seized on Big Island

Have you seen the Chinese Hibiscus? the pod looks like a close cousin of the poppy before it blooms into the Hibiscus flower and it's leaves look just like pakalolo when it first sprouts. My dad was growing them back when I was a kid and was shocked at first when I saw the rows of the stuff growing in our backyard.