{"id":126,"date":"2005-04-05T21:28:18","date_gmt":"2005-04-06T02:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/04\/05\/poppies-yipe\/"},"modified":"2005-09-07T14:28:40","modified_gmt":"2005-09-07T21:28:40","slug":"poppies-yipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/05\/poppies-yipe\/","title":{"rendered":"Poppies!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an <a title=\"Sacramento News Review: Confessions of an EBay opium addict\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newsreview.com\/issues\/sacto\/2005-03-31\/cover.asp\">article about a guy becoming an eBay opium addict<\/a>. I was thinking that he sounded like he was speaking from a place of authority on the matter so I checked on it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>He wrote: <img align=right src='http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/images\/20050405-poppies.png' alt='eBay Poppies!' \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There were online pharmacies on the Internet. I ordered Tramadol from Mexico and Nurofen Plus with the legal max 12.8 milligrams of codeine per tablet from New Zealand. Then that got tougher.<\/p>\n<p>Illustration By Sandra Hoover<br \/>\nFinally, I found eBay. I had been looking for old motel stationery and fake Jackson Pollock drip paintings. They sold everything&#8211;why not drugs?<\/p>\n<p><strong>I typed \u201cpoppy pods\u201d into the search bar.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Like anyone trolling the Internet at 4 a.m., I had been looking for some kind of temporary drug fix. I found it on eBay under Crafts>Floral Supplies>Flowers, Foliage>Dried.<\/p>\n<p>Crafting. Sure. I liked art. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And, there they were!  (Yes, that is a real eBay screenshot)<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m all for the legalization of most recreational drugs as long as they come with appropriate warning labels on them, but&#8230; and please correct me if I&#8217;m wrong, but isn&#8217;t opium a &#8220;controlled&#8221; substance?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty intense, following the buying patterns of these buyers via their feedback. Over the course of a few weeks, first they buy a little&#8230;. and then they buy a lot. And then they buy a real lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an article about a guy becoming an eBay opium addict. I was thinking that he sounded like he was speaking from a place of authority on the matter so I checked on it&#8230; He wrote: There were online pharmacies on the Internet. I ordered Tramadol from Mexico and Nurofen Plus with the legal max [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}