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The Duchess of Northumberland is set to grow drugs including cannabis, opium poppies and magic mushrooms in her public garden, it was announced yesterday. The plants, which will also include tobacco and the coca plant - the source of cocaine, will feature in an educational section of the 150-year-old Alnwick Garden in Northumberland.
A licence for the Alnwick Garden charity to grow the plants was approved by the Home Office but visitors to the garden will be escorted by marshals. The drugs will be grown alongside more than 50 dangerous plants including foxgloves and wild lettuce, which has tranquilising properties, in the country's largest public Poison Garden, designed by Belgian Peter Wirtz.
A licence for the Alnwick Garden charity to grow the plants was approved by the Home Office but visitors to the garden will be escorted by marshals. The drugs will be grown alongside more than 50 dangerous plants including foxgloves and wild lettuce, which has tranquilising properties, in the country's largest public Poison Garden, designed by Belgian Peter Wirtz.
from the Independant
