Technically not, but I bought them for years in 1 and 2kg amounts from a regular old website, using paypal and often sent by special delivery. Very potent, very cheap, very addictive and very hard to quit. The rattle was like 2 weeks long of acute misery and the PAWS I imagine would be miserable, however as I never made it longer than 3 weeks before I started using again, I never found out how long it would last. I eventually graduated to IV heroin and am now stable on methadone, having not used in 18 months, however I started using 12 years ago, so it's a relatively new sobriety. Whilst I have done some nasty rattles off the gear and at one stage fentanyl, I would say that the only kick that I have experienced that was worse than quitting high dose, long term poppy pod tea (PPT) use was precipitated withdrawal caused by shooting 8mg buprenorphine too soon after spending 2 weeks shooting extremely potent fentanyl analogues in insane doses anything upto 15 or 20 times a day.
The very low cost, high potency and convenience of getting 2kgs of pods for roughly £45 delivered, coupled with the very long duration of the high being 24 hours or so, means you can jack your tolerance up high enough that 120mg of methadone won't give you much relief for the first week or 2 and going cold turkey is misery. The intensity of heroin withdrawal with the (partial) duration of methadone withdrawal makes it a uniquely nasty experience not seen with common street opiates, taking 2 or 3 days to really get going and not really abating until 10 days after. It also takes quite a long time for the high to peak too, roughly 4 hours, so if you are still keen to try it after all I've said, bear this in mind: Start very low and don't redose for at least 12 hours and ideally 24. Don't mix with booze or benzos, don't drive and don't have anything major to do the next day.
As for seeds, I don't think the brands sold in the USA that have been reported to be unwashed and effective are sold in the UK, but be careful regardless. Poppy seed tea isn't anywhere near the potency on a gram for gram basis compared to poppy pod tea, however those without tolerance can easily be killed by either. A good starting dose for poppy pod tea to someone with no tolerance would be 10-20grams of pod material, blended to a powder to which a good amount of hot, but not boiling, water is added, along with an optional squirt of something like Jif lemon juice concentrate is added. Blend the mixture again for a minute or 2, then allow to steep for an hour. Filter through a fine cotton cloth, something similar to the fabric from a cotton t-shirt is ideal, squeezing the pulp dry and then drinking. Some people might drink half 1st, then the other in a few hours, to gauge potency aand this is a very good idea to those without tolerance or prior pod tea experience, but I always slugged it in one
Poppy seed tea (PST) is easier to prepare. Weigh seeds, add to large plastic bottle, add warm water, again with Jif if desired, shake for a few minutes, strain by holding cloth over the bottle top and turn upside down. Potency varies wildly, even among different bags from the same batch from the same vendor. It is much more expensive compared to PPT, but it sidesteps the dubious legality of poppy pods AKA poppy straw in the UK in that the seeds are legal to possess, however the solution of PST is still an illegal drug and could be considered as manufacturing, a more serious charge given that it contains many class A drugs.
These are seriously dangerous, addictive drugs, right up there with heroin and methadone. They aren't in the same galaxy as the likes of codeine , which was the first opiate I abused. I made the mistake of thinking that because it was a long duration, potent and cheap way of getting an opiate high, I wouldn't have to spend alot of money on codeine to CWE, spending ages driving around different pharmacies, that I could dose once a day, that it would last me for ages and it would be easier to quit slowly and relatively painlessly compared to short duration of codeine requiring multiple doses a day.
What experience with opiates do you have?
