A 70 year old man in Wenzhou was sentenced by the court for planting opium poppy without permission

In China, there are strict laws and regulations on poppy cultivation Except for medicine, scientific research and popular science education in botanical gardens, all other units and individuals are prohibited from poppy cultivation And Jia, a Wenzhou native, knows that it is the original drug plant that also illegally planted 891 plants Recently, Jia was indicted by Wenzhou Ouhai procuratorate for the crime of illegally planting original plants of drugs The first trial of Ouhai court sentenced Jia to one year's imprisonment, one year and six months' probation, and punished Jin Yuan On the edge of a farmhouse in Ouhai, Wenzhou, a beautiful flower cluster is particularly noticeable These are not ordinary flowers, but the flowers of poppies called "the God of death" Jiamou, 76, who grows these flowers, is from Ouhai In May and June last year, when Jia was out playing, he found a plant he had never seen before, on which there were still fruits Later, Jia asked people nearby to know that this was "black smoke" Out of curiosity, Jia brought a plant home Until last December, Jia took the seeds from the "black smoke" fruit and scattered them on two small fields In May this year, street workers found that many had already blossomed "I just want to plant it to see what kind of black smoke is, and I have no other ideas." after Jia's case, he always argued that he wanted to watch it However, whatever the purpose, Jia's opium poppy cultivation has violated China's criminal law and is suspected of illegally planting the original plants of drugs The court held that Jia's violation of the national drug control regulations, knowing that it was the original plants of drugs, had a large number of cultivation, and his act had constituted the crime of illegally planting the original plants of drugs; the charges charged by the public prosecution were established In view of the fact that Jia was over seventy-five years old when he committed the crime and was able to truthfully state his crime after he was found guilty, combined with the circumstances that all the original plants of the drugs he planted had been eradicated, he was given a lighter punishment and a suspended sentence Therefore, the court made the above judgment.