memphis10 said:
thats crazy so essentially if you bought a shit ton of fire ass pods you could make heroin hcl....no way
Well of course...heroin is made, from poppy pods. Unfortunately the amount that is required is huge and very out of reach. Roughly 250,000 poppy plants can be planted per hectacre which will contain between 300,000 to 500,000 pods (imagine going through THAT labor).
An average household of poppy farmers can plant, cultivate, and harvest two or three "rai" of opium poppy (2.53 rai is equivalent to one acre). The farmer can collect between 3 to 9 kilograms of opium from a year's harvest of a one-acre field, depending on weather, soil quality, acidity, sunlight exposure, and terrain. Once dry, it can hold indefinitely. If the raw opium is to be sold or traded to morphine or heroin labs it is not cooked by the farmer since the raw opium is dissolved in cooking vats before the extraction process. The morphine labs that groups of SE Asia operate follow a process of opium conversion which calls for 13 kilograms of opium from which morphine base is extracted. If the heroin lab is at a seperate location, which is common for security and the distinct pickle smell of heroin manufacturing, the extracted morphine base is pressed into a block most commonly weighing 1.3kg (3 pounds) for transit.
1 kilogram of morphine base, depending on how refined it is, can then be used to produce between 685 grams to 937 grams of crude heroin base (~70% pure). It's then converted to the Hcl salt via a simple step.
This shows the scale that is required for anything substantial. You need a field to be worth it, and there is just no practical way to do this without drawing lots of attention. For everyone here, and everyone that ever has a reason to use opiates recreationally, its just more practical and safe to do a small conversion and drink the tea. It's easy, quick, effective, and cheap. Also, there isn't massive baths of bubbling heroin solution to get you into trouble with the law.
Also, for varying forms of heroin: #3 Heroin, 1 kilogram of crushed caffeine is added to 1 kilogram heroin base then dried. For #4 it's converted to the Hcl, then mix with various combinations of acid and ethanol and treated with charcoal which also gives it the white color.