They started paying Maryland farmers to stop growing tobacco a long time ago.
But I think it’s still legal to farm it; and in most places legal to grow some for personal use.
I’ve never smoked marijuana, don’t know what it’s like, don’t think it’s good for people - (my father, who once smoked some down in Texas in the late 1940s, said he didn’t know why anybody would want that if there was a beer or good shot of whiskey around).
But I like the occasional tobacco smoke, and would like to learn to grow it. And I think it’s important to save all plants in case we don’t yet know the extent of their properties.
Tobacco is legal to grow and harvest without government permission if its for yourself.
Back when on my uncle and grandfather’s land, mary jane grew in the wild. I’ve never tried any either, but I won’t ask my cousins whether they did.
Two or three tobacco plants in the right condition will yield enough for a couple average smokers annually. The trick is curing. Too arid where I live. The leaves have to be hung and humidified and cared for.
If you’re in a high humidity area, much easier.
Try an old frigerator for a sealed, humid, curing box.
A few searches on the interwebs will yield a volume of information on growing and curing your own tobacco.
As for the weed? I can’t help you there. Maybe kind of similar? We’d have to ask the pothead FReepers for advice there. Heh.
Then we can talk about how our political masters will determine what we can plant, and what we cannot.
By the way, opium poppies are illegal.
It’s a flower.