Mccormick doesn't cook their poppy seeds,I don't know where you heard that at.I don't beleive the whole low opium poppy myth.You need a big,potent seed pod to produce good seed,and Mccormick has some of the best.I've even planted poppies of of bagels,no shit.I grew only a few,last year,and they were tasmanian,and they were very potent.I'll keep everyone updated on my progress.Oh,and another thing most people,like tokingreg,think that just because they are supposed to be used for food,they are cooked,and won't grow,wrong.I have the proof.It seemed that every seed I planted popped up.They only took maybe four days to do so.They are growing so vigorously.Why waste time and money buying sedds off the net.Buy Mccormick.I really don't think there is such a low opium producing plant.PEACE