Well I'm more of a pharmaceutical guy myself, there's nothin wrong with that. Nothin beats consistent, accurate dosage units am I right?? Reliable with a capital R!
As for the pods though, I believe she probably shouldn't be boiling them. Alkaloids are sensitive to heat, so boiling for is a no-no. They could degrade into some sort of inactive intermediate by-product metabolite type-a things...
I'd say crush/grind/blend them up really fine (probably not powder...think like weed grinder size maybe) and then I'd put it in a dry water bottle, or the like, and submerge in X amount of lukewarm/room-temp, or even cold water. Cover, shake like hell, and you could probably go ahead and filter it out of the bottle top with holes, and cloth or something under the lid to filter out any other sediment. To test the first run.
I'd say give the first run a try, drink it down, and see what happens.
While you're waiting for it to kick in (to see if its alkaloid-rich enough to even produce an effect) I'd submerge the left over raw materials yet again, this time shake well and let sit...overnight maybe.
If the first batch worked, that's you're method. If not so much, let the next batch sit overnight, shaking occasionally.
Try the next batch 24 hours later, and if IT works better, than the latter 'let it sit & soak" method is you're best bet.
Morphine Meconate is the naturally occurring form of morphine & codeine etc. So we know that Morphine HYDROCHLORIDE, and Morphine SULPHATE are both pretty water soluble around 60mg/milliliter of H2O approximately, and I'm sure the Meconate form (as found in poppies, raw opium, etc..) is also water soluble, but how water soluble? I don't know.
If you googled it you might find some more information on that.
Personally, I've never had any really noticeable effects from poppyseed tea....I imagine pods would be better. But let's assume, for a second, that these pods each contain a whole 1 gram of raw opium...which in reality a pod probably contains more like 250mg or less of opium latex. Somebody on BL can probably elaborate....
But I digress, for example sake, even if you had these amazing pods with 1 gram of opium latex inside of them, only 5-10% of that is actually Morphine and/or Codeine. So being incredibly generous in assumptions here, the most Morphine&codeine you could possibly get, per 1 gram of opium is about 100mg. But the alkaloid content also consists of lots of other stuff...Thebaine, papaverine, oripavine, to name a few. Which are pharmacologically active, though not nearly in the same fashion as morphine/codeine.
I imagine from a whole 20 lbs. of poppy seed though....I bet you'd be lucky to get 60-100mg. Then again, i'm guessing. I'm also guessing that 20lbs of poppyseeds cost at LEAST 20 bucks.....so simple math tells me this; 20 bucks for 100mg of morphine, maybe?
I'll take my chances down in the streets because 20 bucks for 100mg of M is waaaay too much...even for pills TBH. Love me some MSir, too, and last time I scored, it was way cheaper for a handful of tabs than for a shitload of poppyseeds or pods. And much more certain of a thing, as well.
Can you really put a price on certainty?
