or you can just cut off the pods and make tea with them so you dont have to worry about slicing them and getting busted.
as for outside growing.....
I havent tried that yet because the light cycle for poppies is reversed.
12/12 for vegatative growth and 24/0 for flowering
it is easiest to control that indoors :-)
one more thing I barely gave them nutes at all this run "maybe once or twice a weak veg solution" and they were in pro mix