Tsukasa
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Moderate Batch - These guys seem to be the most common and I have obtained them from several vendors. The poppies tend to be mostly light colored. The tea they produce from 1/2 cup of grounds is usually light colored, almost clear enough to see through. The tea is not very bitter, and the high was strange. There was a pronounced opiate effect, but there seemed to be some side effects that had to be endured. I would usually feel an uncomfortable alertness, sometimes some slight muscle tension. I obtained these most commonly.
Good Batch - These poppies are light and dark colored, but the color of the poppy isn't whats important. 1/2 cup of grounds would brew into a very dark tea, like coffee dark, and the flavor would be very very bitter. The high is fantastic, they feel like straight morphine and seem to be nearly 2x as potent as the pods that I usually run into. I have found a source for these at the moment, they use to be the large sized ones but now only the medium sizes pods seem to yield such a dark satisfying tea.
Tsukasa, yours sound to me like the 2nd pod type I have encountered. I remember back in the good ol' days (before habituation had reared its ugly face) I would occasionally drink a fair amount of tea and feel great from the morphine, but I had a slight discomfort over top and more than once I had to lay down and relax. I believed this to be the effect of some of the undesirable alkaloids. My theory was that I was feeling noscapine (sigma ligand) because the feeling reminded me of DXM (also sigma ligand), the way my muscles would tighten and I felt extremely alert.
Yea, that would be my guess. They get me moderately high, nothing fantastic, but they're also kind of edgy. Some stomach discomfort (no nausea fortunately) and just a general dirty feel.
I guess I will just use them as potentiator's for my kratom. Do you have any advice for how to identify good poppies? or what time of the year it's best to buy them and what kind? My supplier says they're papaver somniferum. I'm thinking of trying some tasmanians, giganteums, or arizona purples, since those have gotten good reviews.
I also found this interesting article. http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6067749.html