Opium from somniferum pods...

[apex-shmack]

Hey guys... I have some questions about the poppies. If any informed bluelighter could please shed some light on these questions it would be heartily appreciated...
1. I have a friend who has some dried pods, of the Turkish commercial and giganthenum varieties...Whats the best method in terms of potency to extract? Poppy tea or the smokable resin?
2. How does the high compare to hydro and oxycodone?
3. If the pods are dried how would this person extract the main alkaloids? Everyone has seen the unripe pods having a couple slits cut into them and the milky precipitate oozing out and being collected...Is this opium or does it have to be cooked further? If the Pods are dried I'm assuming you would have to gather the precipitate in some other way....
4. For an opiae beginner, generally how many giganthenum pods would it take for a very pleasant effect?

 

[stardragon]

have you checked out poppies.org?

 

[ketamatic]

1. It would take a lot of work to extract a smokable form from dried pods. I know someone that made pod putty, which is dried out pod tea. This was far from smokable, a smoked dose would be about 2g of poppy flavored putty.
2. Hydro and oxy are both more euphoric, pt is a heavy morphine body buzz(slightly euphoric).
3. Yes, that is smokable opium that you get from cutting the pods when they are fresh. It is usually cooked down so there is less material to smoke. Let the tea evaporate and you will have pod putty. You could further refine this(I can't really tell you how, though). But like I said, 2g or even 1g of the stuff is going to burn(maybe, I've never tried burning it) longer than it's worth.
4. For someone that doesn't know their tolerance, I would say start with 3-4 big pods drink half of it and see how you feel in an hour or so. Some people have a really low tolerance to opiates or might even be allergic to codeine/morphine.