All of the seeds from all of the big vendors are tampered with . What makes me say this is I used to order from all of them and the way they looked and the way they smell and taste is nothing like seeds that I know for a fact are completely normal and haven ' t been tampered with because I have taken them out of the pods myself . The vendors know they are selling addictive produce and I wonder if they regulate the strength of them artificially to allow the most profit and lowest risk to customer . I . e they wash them so that they aren ' t quite as strong as they should be and this causes them to smell totally wrong . A big bag of poppy seeds that comes straight from the pod smells like tobacco almost . Shouldn ' t smell anything like paint or chemicals .