Sigh....Look, I am sure I must have posted in this thread sometime over the 18 months that it has existed but since it is one of those threads that never seems to die I will wade into the morass again and offer a couple of views. First, a fact, SEEDS NEVER CONTAIN ALKALOIDS. Sometimes, Rarely, when unwashed AND taken from Technically Rope pods, they CAN have a resdual (meaning TINY BIT) of alakloidal cotaing.
With that out of the way, probably for the second time, there was once a thread by a poster who apparently no longer posts here, a very young Sikh living iun Canada, in BC. This young man claimed to have bought a kilo bag of opium powder in an Indo-Pak grocery (Indo-Pak is the generic term for SW Asian groceries) for the equivalent of 17 US Dollars.
He was naturally very proud of his purchasing accumen and I was unfortunately the person who questeioned whther or not it was curry powder (stilll makes me laugh). To my suprise though, I have since found that there are a couple of opiated products sold in SOME Indo-Pak groceries around the world, including N. America. It was not opium powder, but could have ben powderised pod, plus various other nonsense to bulk up the weight.
Those who are familiar with SW Asia know all about the curious habit of "Pa'an" and that pa'an can have anything and everything in them. My understanding is that bags like the one he was so happy about are sold for pa'an.
I only tell the whole story to clarify the older thread, in case anyone is keeping score. The point now though, is that even if someone was , well I do not want to say "foolish" but if they CHOSE to try and make "opium" out of seed muck they would never get a slavageable materiel.
The ONLY way to make opium is to lance (i.e. CUT) a pod close to or better yet at Technical Ripeness. Washing seeds with anything and then performing an A/B Extraction, or any other scheme is simply wasting your time, unless one consideres mistakes to be worthwhile usage of time (sometimes they are).
You want smokable materiel? Take a pod, dried, crush it, smoke it because to be frank with people that is going to be the best chance they have UNLESS they are VERY adept at chemistry and utilise perhaps 4 million pods and then take a few days to do a full extraction and crystillisation, and then potentiate that crystillisation and...get the point yet?
It is bad enough that folks insist on making Tea out of seeds (it is akin to smoking cannabis seeds), but then to start dreaming of making opium out of seed washings is like potheads trying to smoke banana peels. Anyway, to each their own. Only a perspective (and some facts).
