Originally posted by ucla_vince:
I want to know about this too.
If I were to grow some poppies and make tea, how would I do it? Extract the opium first and then dry the pods? Or just use fresh pods right off the plant?
222 posts to bluelight and you still can't use the search engine... UCLA admissions has surely sunk to a new low. At least I went to Berkeley for grad school... whew!
But, you're probably correct, I don't think I've ever seen poppy tea discussed on this board EVER! Imagine that.
LD50: I think the easiest way to get a rough estimate of the LD50 would be to take a weighted average of the LD50 for morphine and codeine based on the relative composition of opium. Seems most plausible barring any strange synergistic effects (which there aren't). Basically, you'd have to eat a WHOLE lotta opium (more than you could grow in your backyard) to worry about it based on recent (there's that search thing again) discussions of the LD50 for codeine.
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