You wrote:
 
>12/20/97
>
>Hey, good question, Garth!  And do bees pollinate cannabis?, and opium
>poppies?, and coca plants? and jimson weed? etc., etc.
>
>If so, would this honey be hallucinogenic (and illegal) as well as
>poisonous???  Seems like we would have heard of it by now...  Maybe the
>bees avoid these plants, or else convert any active substances into
>harmless ones.
>
>=gary=
>
 
Cannabis is wind pollinated.  The flowers produce no sweet nectars.  The
pollen is psychoactive.  In Morocco it is separated from the rest of the
plant and smoked as "kif".  Since cactus flowers produce a sweet nectar
aswell as poppies I would assume it would be gathered by bees.  The
psychoactive alkaloids are not very water soluble though so they probably
aren't present in the nectar in any great quantity.