With a few years of experience I would like to make a few comments and clarifications. Please in the interest of harm reduction don't disseminate optimistic information regarding dosing strength if you are not a chemist or trained to actually measure and quantify the ingredients in your final batch. For newcomers that alone can be the single most dangerous information passed on.
So in the interests of harm reduction and err on the side of caution information here goes. Note: I am also not a trained chemist but I will refrain from optimistic dosing information. Information as follows:
- Boiling myth. Just plain wrong and yet the myth has been posted online since the commercial internet started. Telling people boiling destroys the alkaloids and then having them try it and assume a dose will be under strength is dangerous. Morphine does not break down at water boiling temperature. Morphine has a flash point of 247c and boiling point of 476c. Boiling morphine suspended in water will not destroy it. You will reduce the water but the morphine will just sit there. (http://www.lookchem.com/Morphine/). Just remember a lot of morphine by products are made through processes involving extreme heat. Smoking opium likewise relies on extreme heat.
- While heat is unnecessary for extraction of the latex coating the seeds...boiling/simmering will allow you to reduce the amount of liquid ingested so again be careful...that 50ml you end up with after a boiling reduction will still contain approximately the same amount of alkaloids as you started with pre-reduction.
- The colour myth. Having tried thousands of batches from dozens of sources I can say with a high degree of confidence and err on the side of safety by saying colour does not equate to strength. I have had almost clear liquid floor me and the dark brew of hades do not much under otherwise controlled conditions. I know the inclination is to equate colour with strength because the thought is that lack of colour implies unwashed/treated etc. This is simply not the case and even if it were it still wouldn't mean the actual morphine/codeine content was any weaker or stronger. Washing runoff can remove residue or simply displace it. A clean press can still contain just as many invisible to the eye morphine/codeine alkaloids as can a dirty press.
So please be aware and be safe! Cheers.
So in the interests of harm reduction and err on the side of caution information here goes. Note: I am also not a trained chemist but I will refrain from optimistic dosing information. Information as follows:
- Boiling myth. Just plain wrong and yet the myth has been posted online since the commercial internet started. Telling people boiling destroys the alkaloids and then having them try it and assume a dose will be under strength is dangerous. Morphine does not break down at water boiling temperature. Morphine has a flash point of 247c and boiling point of 476c. Boiling morphine suspended in water will not destroy it. You will reduce the water but the morphine will just sit there. (http://www.lookchem.com/Morphine/). Just remember a lot of morphine by products are made through processes involving extreme heat. Smoking opium likewise relies on extreme heat.
- While heat is unnecessary for extraction of the latex coating the seeds...boiling/simmering will allow you to reduce the amount of liquid ingested so again be careful...that 50ml you end up with after a boiling reduction will still contain approximately the same amount of alkaloids as you started with pre-reduction.
- The colour myth. Having tried thousands of batches from dozens of sources I can say with a high degree of confidence and err on the side of safety by saying colour does not equate to strength. I have had almost clear liquid floor me and the dark brew of hades do not much under otherwise controlled conditions. I know the inclination is to equate colour with strength because the thought is that lack of colour implies unwashed/treated etc. This is simply not the case and even if it were it still wouldn't mean the actual morphine/codeine content was any weaker or stronger. Washing runoff can remove residue or simply displace it. A clean press can still contain just as many invisible to the eye morphine/codeine alkaloids as can a dirty press.
So please be aware and be safe! Cheers.