How would it be done? I can get a lot of giant pods, I'm not sure about seeds though, as they're usually seedless. So what's a good method of extracting opium and should it be chased or smoked out of a pipe? I've tried it once and really enjoyed it. really i'd just much rather have a nice ball of opium than make tea and have to drink the shit every so often. Seems like a nice idea. any help would be appreciated
to smoke opium you can put it on sum weed or a cig but the best way is to vaporize on foil or light bulb. as for extracting o from the plants: if they are alive in the ground you have to cut them with a razor about half way thru the skin and let them bleed then collect when dry. if the poppy pods are dried you need to soak them in a solvent like water or ethanol then gently heat to concentrate. do a search on google and erowid there is TONS of info about this.
I looked for instructions everywhere and I collected all I could. A few summers ago there were enough papaverum somniferum plants that the milk/sap could be collected and have a relativley decent quantity. The problem in the instruction process was the 'boiling part' for 'smokable opium'....otherwise the milky sap you collect that turns a hardish brown/black/red overnight is known as 'raw or crude opium'. Generally speaking this opium is very rare, although it is smoked in South East Asia by the tribes of Laos, Vietnam, Myenmar/Burma and Thailand, 'raw/crude opium' is almost never seen in the open market. Whenever opium is transported to a factory to be refined in heroin it almost always is 'smokable opium' therefore opium seen around the Mid East is always opium that has been boiled. The boiling process removes a lot of the plant matter and other impurities, making the opium a lot more potent than the former raw opium. The biggest problem with cooking/boiling opium is that from a 10 gram chunk of raw opium you would end up with about 2 grams of smokable opium if you know what your doing, even 1g if you don't know much, however you could also risk the chance to waste all you opium and have it go to shit if you fuck up when boiling it. For these reasons when I was done collecting everything I could collect the raw amount was just over half gram, 0.6g-0.7g. If I would have cooked this I would have gotten shit all if anything at all considering my luck with following instructions. I smoked it sandwiched in a bowl of cannabis, I chased it off tin foil like with heroin and I ate a small chunk of it. I must say that everytime I smoked it alone or with cannabis, it had a LOVELY smell, kind of what chasing the dragon with H smell like but more flowery and earthy/fresh, however I NEVER got a high. Once while chasing for about 20 min straight I felt a bit high like that of 2 Tylenol 3s (60mg codeine), in that it was pretty stimulating high by all means rather than a stony buzz. I stopped smoking or chasing it and ate the remaining chunk which was very small 0.1g-0.2g and that gave the most pronounced effects though still borderline effects (threshold). To see if it was my own fault in the methods of collecting and smoking opium I bought a gram of opium from a buddy who has no tolerence and he said it was okay but nothing strong like people say back in the days (60s-70s). I had this opium which looked and smellt exactly like mine did and when I chased it I had the same problem. I ate a bigger chunk of this opium, about 0.3g and I finally got a buzz...not a nod but something like 15mg-20mg oxy with no tolerence (though when I had the 2nd opium I had a heroin tolerence, about 100mg-200mg smoked a day).
I gave up to the point that the only opium I get is from the grinded pods of the poppy plant. With no tolerence 2-3 good sized pods (coffee grinded and swallowed) sedates me just as much as the 0.3g chunk of the opium I bought and took orally.
