Victoria in next step to poppy crops

By Peter Sanders
Updated March 25 2014 - 7:48am, first published 1:00am

TASMANIA'S protected status as Australia's only approved supplier of narcotic poppy products took a hit last week when legislation allowing Victorian farmers to grow commercial poppy crops passed that state's Parliament.

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