Fail Fighter
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Jus about to do a quick morphine extraction on some poppy tea I've had sittin around for ages...
Don't bother, it's not going to work.
Fail Fighter, it sounds like you've come up with a pretty neat method that skips a bunch of steps and goes straight for the goodies, I cant figure out why no one appreciates it!
I didn't come up with it though. This is the primary method used in Afghanistan, where they produce 90% of the world's supply of heroin.
perhaps it is because you're calling your tek "acid/base" an it's nothin like an acid base extraction in the traditional sense.
Well you can use common sense and determine where to do the different solvent extractions, if you want. I was simply lazy and opted to toy with the pH instead, because I wanted the final product to be in a water solution and not a Xylene/Acetone solution.
anyway I don't have any ph indicators and from what I can tell that won't matter, I can just err on the side of excess.
I dunno, I couldn't have done it without a very precise pH meter. I made sure to hit 9.1 on the dot. Sure, the the acid/base pair are good buffers, but that's assuming you're starting with 20lbs of opium and you're not going for maximum yield. In other words, it's great for Afghani farmers... not so great for the guy with poppy seeds. I don't know what the pH +/- will be if you go to excess, but I do know that when you add excessive CaOH, you'll have to let the flask sit for a day or so for all the excess to settle out.
Ya think there'll be any risk of burning my morphine?
No
I'd like to have a li'l stash as I don't have healthcare...
It's not going to work. You need to have a very morphine-dense solution, otherwise you'll never get the precipitation to start, even at pH 9.1. From 50g of PODS, I got maybe 50mg of morphine. In other words, I got a nearly invisible amount. It was just enough to leave a light film around the sides of the flask. Not even enough to scrape up. Certainly not a "stash." Just please, learn from my mistakes and don't waste your time. I wasted $250-300 on this endeavor, only to end up with a small amount of questionable powder that, at best, would still be weaker than a single 60mg pill of morphine sulphate.
If you're jonesin' bad enough to even consider such a time+money-wasting endeavor, you're better off just buying pills online. Yes, you can still do that. No, it's not through legitimate online pharmacies. No, I can't tell you where to go. But spend enough time scouring the internet and you'll find the right places. I used to buy OxyContin online before I found a local source. It costs an arm and a leg though. Plus sometimes the DEA will confiscate your package and replace it with a friendly warning letter... and you will NOT get your money back. Here's a hint: it has nothing at all to do with Bluelight, and nobody here will help you find it.