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eating opium?

homeboyJim

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what would happen if one ate black tar opium plain... no heat, no tea, nothing...
would it be harmful? would it do nothing because the active ingredients weren't heated?
just curious...
 
Just got done rereading the book "Poppies" by Eric Detzer great insight into oral opium intake may give you some insight
 
Originally posted by Lsdki:
Just got done rereading the book "Poppies" by Eric Detzer great insight into oral opium intake may give you some insight
How about you give us the basics because I know I'm not about to go buy a book.. if I cant find it online I'm not likely to sink any money into it... most people here (myself included) are also too poor to buy a book (a $20 book + s/h = an 80mg OxyContin)
 
First time I ever did opium was by accident and it was orally. I was friends with this Indian kid back in my dorm and his relatives always mailed him huge packages full of food and all these Indian spices, remedies etc... One day we got something to eat and the food gave both of us a nasty stomach ache. Back in his room he produces a ziploc bag full of spices seeds and God knows what else. He says it is some old Indian recipe that cures stomach problems so we dig in. My stomach felt better but I also felt different. Somewhat relaxed, maybe feeling a little strange, I didnt feel baseline for sure. I tried to disregard the feeling but I couldn't shake it. Turns out that this seed/spice mixture contained opium. It wasn't strong, maybe the threshold effects of an opium dose, but nevertheless it is possible to get a little something out of eating opium.
 
So drinking tea does not count as eating I am guessing?
That wasn't supposed to sound smart assy or anything. I am really wondering.
Anyways, I have read of a few instances where the person just liked the latex right off the pod and got high.
 
The active component of opium is morphine. (There are some other opiates, but they are present in only tiny amounts.) Morphine is about a sixth as potent orally as parenterally (eg IM). See http://www.stat.washington.edu/TALARIA/talaria0/table10.html or any number of similar tables online. IMO smoking heroin (which would be similar, and your 'opium' might be H anyways) is about half as potent or more than IM/IV'ing.
So it'll take between 3-6 times as much opium eaten as smoked to get you high.
-Zorn
 
Quick recipie excerpt from Poppies..Eric Detzer..Put 40 pods in a blender add hot water mix it. squeeze it through a cheese cloth and drink it. According to him 60 mg of methadone was unable to hold him while he had a 40 pod a day jones.(Equimolar-analgesic dose )He eventually got up to 120 pods a day thats when he would drive around northern Washington stealing poppies out of un-assuming folks yards.And according to him looking in floral supply places used to help too
 
Eating opium is a comman way of dosing. Many people prefer this over smoking. It's thought that much of th emorphine gets wasted when trying to smoke it. Throw 500mg or so into a cup of warm water or tea and drink up.
 
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