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.
LOL! Thanks!
The first garden I grew was in a totally clay-and-rock space outside my grandmother’s apartment. I grew an enormous sunflower, lots of cleome, marigolds, chives (which lasted until we used them at Thanksgiving) and one beautiful pink crepe-paper-looking Poppy.
It was amazing to me that that poppy came up in that nasty soil. Actually, as a first city-girl experiment in growing things, it was all kind of amazing.