My wife started growing poppies around the place, I didn't think much about it till I noticed that they were somniferous ...the real deal. Now they self seed and come up all over the place. It is legal here as long as you don't try to make opium. So each year i collect about 10 grams of latex. Scrape the semi-dried juice onto my pocket knife and scrape that onto the rim of a plastic jar and leave it lid off for the duration of "harvest season". as it drys it gets darker and denser. by about mid summer it turns into something like hard plastic...you what bakelite is? its very brittle and hard.
I cut off and weigh out 200 to 300 mg bits and pack into gelatine caps and take for arthritis pain. No more that twice a week. Its very effective and usually lasts for 2 or even 3 days relief. I get about 30 doses each year and that seems to be about what i need to take the edge off bad days.
I don't smoke anything and i like the control of oral ingestion. the caps keep the horrible taste under control.
My question is why does this raw latex go so hard/brittle? I thought opium was soft and gooey. it starts out that way but goes very solid. is there another step i should take to make a better quality product? sometimes this stuff causes my stomach to get strange feeling, not nausea and much as like a mild cramp that doesnt want to let up for hours. still worth the pain relief but would be great to purify to the next level.
I cut off and weigh out 200 to 300 mg bits and pack into gelatine caps and take for arthritis pain. No more that twice a week. Its very effective and usually lasts for 2 or even 3 days relief. I get about 30 doses each year and that seems to be about what i need to take the edge off bad days.
I don't smoke anything and i like the control of oral ingestion. the caps keep the horrible taste under control.
My question is why does this raw latex go so hard/brittle? I thought opium was soft and gooey. it starts out that way but goes very solid. is there another step i should take to make a better quality product? sometimes this stuff causes my stomach to get strange feeling, not nausea and much as like a mild cramp that doesnt want to let up for hours. still worth the pain relief but would be great to purify to the next level.
