Hi all, I have a question.
I have been searching through this and many other forums and threads and could not find anything.
What happened was this- I have been using poppy seed tea for about the last 18 months. The place I buy my seeds from has always been reliable and has always yielded great tea.
However, about 5 days ago, I noticed the seeds I was buying had a strong peppery smell. I mean strong too. As if the people working there had accidentally emptied half of a bag of pepper into the poppy seed hopper. When I took them home and made my tea (for which I have my own "standardized" method that I always use), I noticed that the tea tasted better. It wasn't as shockingly horrible to drink. I also noticed that the tea did nothing at all for me.
The day prior I was soaring after ingesting the same volume of tea. Terrified, because this means facing horrible withdrawals during a critical time at school, I drove all the way across town to the other store that sells the seeds and found that although the seeds at store 2 did smell like pepper, they did work better. I am now drinking 3-5x the tea I would normally have to and I am getting about .1 the high.
Has anyone here experienced anything similar?
What is the pepper smell?