Correspondent:: "10 minutes of fame" Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:15:31 -0500
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Found this on http://www.voyeurweb.com/main/Main.html
"Eye On British Royalty" - by K
It must be nice to be British Royalty, Voyeurwebbers,
mainly because they seem to be able to do things
the rest of us mere mortals are not permitted to do.
Take the Duchess of Northumberland for example.
The Duchess has won permission from the British Home
Office to grow - brace yourselves and check your envy
now - cannabis, opium, magic mushrooms and cocaine
for "educational purposes" in her garden at Alnwick Castle.
The Times newspaper reports that visitors will be
able to admire - but not pick - marijuana plants,
opium poppies, magic mushrooms, tobacco
and the coca plant, the source of cocaine.
Many of those not to the manor born (i.e. not royalty)
- and you may know some of them - must be going
crazy trying to figure out why they can't grow in their
gardens what the Duchess grows in hers, but the
Duchess' garden is no ordinary horticultural plot.
The new items will take their place alongside 50
other dangerous plants in what will be Britain's
largest public poison garden.
According to the Duchess, "The Poison Garden
will offer a new avenue, outside the classroom,
to get people talking about the misuse of drugs,
most of which grow in nature. I am interested
in the power of plants and how they have been
used not only to cure but to poison and kill."
That quote, of course, may well by why we never
hear anything about a "Duke" of Northumberland
at Alnwick Castle.
Duchess, Duchess how does your garden grow?
"With illicit drugs and poison things, which we
can do because we're kin to the queen." K.