I have a few tips for ya
- Be carefull with some of the smaller seed vendors who specialize in poppy seeds like the izmir and such. Izmir has ben out of business for some time (I think 2013) (Wayback machine Izmir--
http://web.archive.org/web/20010803042344/http://www.izmirpoppy.com/index.html ) . And some of the biggest growers how sell his genetics have shitty seed breeding practices, and their stuff suffers from Inbreeding depression, genetic drift and even some cross polination. Off coarse thats not everyone thow.
Great reading hear ---
http://bookzz.org/
-Poppy the genius papaver Medicinal and Aromatic Plants—Industrial Profiles
-Opium made eazy. despite the name the book is actually good, theirs a great perspective on its history, and legality/illegality
-Hydroponic herion.
-The birth of heroin and the demoralization of the dope fiend.
-Addicts who survived a oral history of narcotics use in america before 1965
-Dark Paradise a history of dope in america.
-The historical shift in the perception of opiates from medicine to social menace.
-Scientific opinion on the risks for public health related to the presence of alkaloids in poppy seeds
The UNODC, The one about artifical lighting was already posted but their are so many more, their are 6 documents documenting the local groath of poppy in forien countrys , USSR, Turkey, Hungry, India,ect. Their are also documents about scientific experiments with fertilizers, spacing, and all kinds of other stuff.
-UNODC Archive, ---
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/bulletin/
-UNODC the supression of cultivation in the US (great article dealing with legal aspects) ---
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/bulletin/bulletin_1950-01-01_3_page003.html
Some other intersting reading
-Detailed history of opium with photo's ---
http://www.cinarc.org/Opium.html#anchor_213
-Ghazipur opium facto
ry --- http://www.goaf.gov.in/feedback.html (I dont know how to turn the large print/highlights off) Sorry