I have never done opium but my friends have, the thing is i was young when they tried it and now none exsists here as times have changed and i live in an area where the police are everywhere and even bud is getting scarce and rising higher in price (one dealer asked for 90 a q and 200 for a half like that makes sense). What i want to do is maybe grow a few poppies i will get books on it and stuff like that but can anyone tell me right now what the yeild for a poppy is and how many i would need to get high from because i read on the internet that "it would take an acre of plants to support an addict" but this was a quote from some DEA pig and i know how much i can trust a pig.
if you're harvesting raw opium then -from what i understand- with a good variety of poppy, you should get about one smokable dose from one to four poppy pods (i think there can be several pods to a plant, not positive though) however, if there are cops all over and they are actively pursuing drugs, assuming they aren't entirely stupid they WILL catch on to you when your poppy pods are leaking latex from where you've slit them and you're out there scraping the dried opium off the pods with a knife and a bowl.....you're more likely to want to make opium tea, in which case, depending on potency and tolerance, it can take anywhere from 2 to 10 poppy pods to get a good solid dose. always start low with a new variety to test how well they work....i once had some REALLY good pods and started by making tea with four pods....i ended up almost overdosing, had a VERY strong opiate high and was up puking for much of the night. puking once or twice on pod tea isn't really too bad, cause as soon as you're done you're feeling amazing again and you dont really care, but it still isn't pleasant while you're doing it. i puked probably 6-8 times that night, though. and drinking the tea is enough to make me WANT to puke, anyway. basically, yeah, since you'll get the pods only once a year and an addict would be taking opium at least every day or two, often several times a day if they smoke it, an acre per person to support a years addiction is entirely believable. even then it would require strict rationing...having that amount of opium all at once would be tempting for an addict to heavily over indulge early on, and it may just end up with them more addicted. rather, it would be reasonable to assume that a person addicted to painkillers or heroin or opium may consume an acre or more's worth of opiates within a years time, but their intake is going to be limited by availability of their drugs, their ability to ration it, and their financial situation as well.
Without openly admitting 'criminal' liability for breaking prohibition, I may have gone through the trouble last year of learning, cultivating and harvesting hundreds of opium poppies...only to discover after all that work, that even pure opium is still inferrior to hydrocodone...let alone oxy.
maybe it is in some people's opinions, but i think i've only once or twice had an experience with pharmaceutical painkillers that anywhere close to rivaled the experience with opium tea on a mere four pods...including a recent oxycodone night....i've heard some varieties of somniferum are extremely potent and some are not.....one of the main constituents of opium is morphine, another is codeine, and i'm sure it would be a relatively easy process to isolate the opiates into a purer form than the opium itself if you really want something stronger, seeing as morphine was one of the very first pure chemical drugs EVER discovered....the process can't be too difficult, and morphine can be eaten, smoked, insufflated or even injected the same as any other pharmaceutical opiate/opioid... anyway, even if it weren't as good to smoke raw opium as to take a few percocets or something, it's still gonna be pretty nice stuff, and if it's not as "good" then it probably isn't as addictive, either....the pleasures of an opiate without as much of a risk of getting hooked sounds pretty good to me, even if its not as overwhelming as other forms....
