Stutz v. BUREAU OF NARCOTICS, ETC.

WELSH, District Judge.

These are companion cases, involving the same issues and heard together upon the plaintiffs’ applications for preliminary injunction and the defendants’ motions to. dismiss.

The plaintiffs are growers within the State of California of the blue seeded poppy of the species known botanically as Papaver Somniferum. They are cultivating these poppies for their seed, an edible food product commercially profitable to the producer. Other parts of this species of poppy are a source of opium and opium derivatives, including morphine. The fluid obtained through incisions cut in the…