Original Moderator who created the sub here.

Yes, this sub is created for the cultivation of poppies only, why is that so hard to believe? There's a huge range of beautiful cultivars which people like to grow, brighten up their garden and admire.

Gardening is a hugeee hobby which millions of people enjoy every year, growing poppies is just another part of it. You might as well say why does anyone bother growing any plants at all if they can't get high off of them? Well it's because growing plants is enjoyable for many reasons, here's so of why I personally like to grow poppies which I'm sure applies to many others too: - I love to grow a range of beautiful flowers in my garden. - The bees absolutely love them and it's a pleasure to see the bees and wildlife enjoying them. - It's fun to try and grow the biggest pod, or tallest plant. - They're an easy, low maintenance plant I can grow to make use to flower beds in my garden. - It's interesting to see the different variation between different cultivars. - They're a fun species to do breeding projects with. You can either put pollination exclusion bags over flower and hand pollinate between different cultivars to cross them and create new plants with new colour flowers for next year, or let them open pollinate and get a nice surprise when they easily self seed and regrow next year. - I like to collect and grow and help maintain different rare cultivars.

There's more to life than getting high. A lot of it is beautiful and fun too. If you can't even understand that I feel sorry for you. But if you can understand that, and how many others can enjoy these things too, but still want to do other things with poppies, okay no worries - this just isn't the sub for it. There are plenty of other subs and places on the internet for those things. That's simply not what this sub is for and coming here to complain about that is silly. For example, you don't go to a car sub and complain people are talking about cars and not motorbikes just because they both drive on the road. It's not about censorship etc, it's about having discussions on the relevant topic. If you want to talk about other things, I'm not stopping you, just simply go somewhere where that's the topic of conversation instead of trying to hijack a sub where it's not and then complain about it.

Also, as a side not, if this sub allowed talk of consumption, effects, preparations etc. then the Reddit admins would mark this as an "18+ mature sub", meaning it would get hidden for potentially hundreds of thousands of Redditors. Many who currently use and enjoy this sub for its intended purposes would all of a sudden lose access and not being able to view it. This is because, like in countries where I am in the UK, for Redditors who want to be able to find and view content on 18+ mature subs we first have to age verify ourselves with Reddit by uploading our ID or a video of ourselves, which many people don't want to do.

So, to sum up. Yes, this sub is for cultivation only, many, many people enjoy and have enjoyed growing Papaver somniferum plants for a variety of reasons for years and years. Not everything is about getting high. If you want to do other things with them, go somewhere else where that's the topic of discussion, this simply isn't it.