In Defense of Opium Poppies
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I was at a curator’s talk on the current show at the Ashmolean, Oxford’s art museum, yesterday. The exhibition is called In Bloom: How Plants Changed Our World, and at the end there were some peppery questions and comments from the audience, including: “The show has the wrong title. It should be: ‘How We Exploited Plants To Change Our World.'” It’s not the fault of the opium poppy (represented in the show, along with an opium pipe) that we have loaded it with notoriety; it didn’t choose that. In
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