"I have some cannabis seedlings. They aren't quite large enough yet to make any real attempts at processing the leaves for smoking or for oil but it will help with mental and physical health. I have been trying to keep that quiet, though. I want to save it for medicinal purposes only."

The last thing Helen wanted was for people to become stoners and steal her carefully tended plants. That would do none of them any good.

"I think we at least have a place to start. I wish we had poppies. Opium could be used as an anesthetic if we had to do any type of surgery."