PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) Harper's Magazine is once again allowed reading at a
federal prison camp, three months after a warden said an illustration for an
article titled ``Opium, Made Easy'' might make crime too easy.

The illustration prison Warden Dennis Hasty found offensive described was
reprinted from the book ``Opium for the Masses'' and describes how tea can be
brewed from crushed poppy seeds.

It appeared with the article, which warns that gardeners who grow poppies are
risking 20year prison terms and $1 million fines even though the seeds they
plant are legal.

In a March 26 letter to Harper's, Hasty said the illustration was
``detrimental to the security, good order, or discipline'' of the prison or
``may facilitate criminal activity.''

But Hasty's supervisors reviewed the issue and reversed the ban, the prison
said in a news release last week.

``Perhaps the grave security threat that Mr. Hasty envisioned has now
passed,'' said John R. MacArthur, publisher of the monthly magazine, with a
circulation of about 220,000.

An inmate subscriber, Robert Armstrong, was surprised by the censorship.

``Knowing Harper's Magazine, and knowing it really doesn't condone drug use
or any kind of criminal activity or anything like that, I was kind of shocked
and amazed,'' he said.

``It obviously was an attempt by someone to put their morality upon the
entire institution here.''

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