In a message dated 5/24/2005 3:34:36 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 24/5/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED], discombobulated, unleashed:
>The California state flower is the California poppy. Which is a wildflower -- >basically a weed. Because it is a weed it tends to grow by roadsides, and in >some inaccessible places like on the sides of a steep hills. Is it still against state law to pick a poppy ? Cheers, Cotty ============ It used to be. It know it was when I was growing up. I am not sure what the current status is. But I think so. Poppies don't last at all when you pick them anyway. Most wildflowers don't. But when I was growing up I was told that the original law against picking them, passed many long years ago, ergo, before I was born ;-), was because the law/courts/etc. were afraid people would/could run around make opium from the poppies. Although I the California poppy think it is the wrong type of poppy for that, completely. But you know how people get about drugs. Totally paranoid. Not just the users. ;-) Marnie aka Doe
