samschicken
Greenlighter
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- Oct 12, 2011
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Hi all
I'm new to bluelight, so hello. I am also relatively new to all of these alkaloids, though I do have a fair bit of knowledge.
A friend and I picked up around 40 papaver somniferum giganteum pods (they are huge!). I removed the hard bits at each end that seem to clogg up the coffee grinder, put all the seed into a pot and then shredded the pods. We ended up with 300g seeds and 200 pod powder.
Using advice online (a lot of which is contradictory), we took 50g powder and added a load of 40% alcohol (80 proof), we couldn't find any isopropyl alcohol so had to make do, we will get some for the next batch. We also added some vinegar to lower the pH, as we heard from many sources that the alkaloids of interest are more soluble at low pH. I'm not sure of the pKas of the compounds involved, so cant say for sure.
Anyway, this mix is in a mason jar, and we are going to leave it for at least a day.
I have also read about the seeds, and that they have very little amount of alkaloids, however there is some. Given that we had 300g seeds, and no-where to plant them (nor any temptation to eat them
) I thought I would do some attempts at extraction and post my findings.
I carried out the same procedure as above, but I didn't grind the seeds, i just left them in a mason jar with the alcohol and acetic acid. I used half (150g)
So, question time...
How long should I leave the seeds and the pod poweder to ensure that everything has gone into solution?
Are the alkaloids equally soluble in water and ethanol?
Are any of the other compounds that will dissolve in the alcohol or water particularly harmful, especially if smoked?
After filtering out the gunk from both, i'll have some kind of alkaloid containing liquid, which I will heat very gently and fan (I think codeine, for example, is unstable at 50 degrees celsius). Will I end up with a resin, or a solid?
If I get a resin, will it be possible to dissolve it in another solvent or two, and carry out some kind of phase separation tecnique in order to obtain a purer product?
Will doing a CWE at this point be beneficial in any way?
***I have no interest in purifying morphine alone, i'm happy to just get the alkaloids together***
Also, is the resin smokable, if so what is best? Small balls of the resin in a rolled cigarette, or through a pipe, or through a bong or a vaporiser? really not my field so don't know what to do with it.
Also, any ideas on the conc of each alkaloid once you get to this resin state? i.e. is it so low that smoking isn't an option?
All in all the reason i want to smoke is
a) faster hit
b) not need for empty stomach
c) as far as i know it is a longer lasting high, because drug entry in the stomach / small intestine will go straight to the liver via some hepatic blood vessel, so a lot will be metabolised straight away? less of an isue with stuff like codeine that needs some level of metabolic activity to make it into morphine anyway, but for pureish morphine smoking seems the way forward. And I have no interest in making it into H.
Some answers would be great!
I'm new to bluelight, so hello. I am also relatively new to all of these alkaloids, though I do have a fair bit of knowledge.
A friend and I picked up around 40 papaver somniferum giganteum pods (they are huge!). I removed the hard bits at each end that seem to clogg up the coffee grinder, put all the seed into a pot and then shredded the pods. We ended up with 300g seeds and 200 pod powder.
Using advice online (a lot of which is contradictory), we took 50g powder and added a load of 40% alcohol (80 proof), we couldn't find any isopropyl alcohol so had to make do, we will get some for the next batch. We also added some vinegar to lower the pH, as we heard from many sources that the alkaloids of interest are more soluble at low pH. I'm not sure of the pKas of the compounds involved, so cant say for sure.
Anyway, this mix is in a mason jar, and we are going to leave it for at least a day.
I have also read about the seeds, and that they have very little amount of alkaloids, however there is some. Given that we had 300g seeds, and no-where to plant them (nor any temptation to eat them
I carried out the same procedure as above, but I didn't grind the seeds, i just left them in a mason jar with the alcohol and acetic acid. I used half (150g)
So, question time...
How long should I leave the seeds and the pod poweder to ensure that everything has gone into solution?
Are the alkaloids equally soluble in water and ethanol?
Are any of the other compounds that will dissolve in the alcohol or water particularly harmful, especially if smoked?
After filtering out the gunk from both, i'll have some kind of alkaloid containing liquid, which I will heat very gently and fan (I think codeine, for example, is unstable at 50 degrees celsius). Will I end up with a resin, or a solid?
If I get a resin, will it be possible to dissolve it in another solvent or two, and carry out some kind of phase separation tecnique in order to obtain a purer product?
Will doing a CWE at this point be beneficial in any way?
***I have no interest in purifying morphine alone, i'm happy to just get the alkaloids together***
Also, is the resin smokable, if so what is best? Small balls of the resin in a rolled cigarette, or through a pipe, or through a bong or a vaporiser? really not my field so don't know what to do with it.
Also, any ideas on the conc of each alkaloid once you get to this resin state? i.e. is it so low that smoking isn't an option?
All in all the reason i want to smoke is
a) faster hit
b) not need for empty stomach
c) as far as i know it is a longer lasting high, because drug entry in the stomach / small intestine will go straight to the liver via some hepatic blood vessel, so a lot will be metabolised straight away? less of an isue with stuff like codeine that needs some level of metabolic activity to make it into morphine anyway, but for pureish morphine smoking seems the way forward. And I have no interest in making it into H.
Some answers would be great!

so we had some tea and right now im pretty damn high! put all of the powder into convenient little baggies.