Poppy pods and sourcing

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SWIM has been looking around and has found some very good material on the legality of poppy pods (in the US) - and everything he's read would seem to indicate that their sale and possession is illegal. However it's difficult to deny the market realities -- one can, it would seem, purchase them from a variety of sources on the web, and one of them specifically advertised that it once again is shipping to the US. If poppy pods are illegal, it certainly seems as if DEA is more lenient with these than any other controlled substance.

Then SWIM re-read the material out there and was struck by the fact that most of it dates back to 2002-2003, which brings up SWIM's question: Has something changed? Or is DEA truly turning a blind eye to this grey market?

SWIM is also looking for the accounts of others who have bought from web-sources (without naming sources, of course) successfully.

Thanks!