2019-2069 Opium poppy filled the valleys and plains of the Interland..

..and the cows went crazy! Hemp was already a standby crop, used mostly in textiles. People lost their appetites however, foregoing kale and squash, when the mother of morphine took over. What started as cash crops became inundated with a lust for buzz. Anything to ease the pain. Munchies was a thing of the Twenty-first century, but seemed almost laughable in the face of poppy. Cows became hippies. Some could be seen walking on their hind legs. Other's started to speakplainEnglish, sitting at the crossroads pontificating on current events and their take on the news. Their weather reports were deadly accurate. Interland folk stopped eating beef.