
RIGHT: The duchess, Jane Northumberland.
In a recent article, The Guardian, [sarcasm ]official organ of the nanny state [/sarcasm], gets hyperbolic about the terribly dangerous plants. Protect the children! Fence off the catnip!
"Evil-looking flowers," Caroline? Imagine a potato flower. Imagine it pale yellow with dark brown veins. OK? A plant can be a traditional entheogen without being "evil-looking." Ah well, she has to promote the product.

LEFT: "Evil-looking" henbane blossom.
Who knows what else adventurous British gardeners might be tempted to try growing.
I have long assumed that some very discreet growers in mild North American climates have brought Mama Coca north of the Mexican border. How useful for that long hike in the Sierra Nevada! Unlike refined cocaine, the natural plant has been used for centuries, it has nutritional value, etc.--all this is in the writing of ethnobotanists like the late Richard Schultes or Wade Davis.
(I owe the phrase "poison path" to Dale Pendell.)
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