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About the poppies, maybe this is a dumb question but I've been reading about extracting the opium from the pod-couldn't you just eat, smoke or make the whole pod into a tea? Since the opium is inside why is it that you must extract it first, are there other ingredients in the pod that makes them dangerous or undesireable? Just curious, since I've been reading all the posts about the poppie seeds. Personally, I've never had opium. Can someone educate me? Again, this is purely out of curiousity. Thanks.
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I'm pretty sure there has to be some kind of chemical process you would need to do to extract the opium from the plants, but all of this talk about opium plants and leaves reminds me of the time my friend and me went to New Hope, PA and she purchased some opium leaves from one of the magic shops down there (for spell casting purposes, don't ask, my friend isn't wrapped too tight) and she wound up putting them in her potpourri burner. I swear to you, to this day, I'll never forget the horrible smell of that stuff (reminded me of cat urine), or the dizzy, off balanced feeling I had just from breathing in the fumes of it.
It only lasted a few minutes, but if just burning a few leaves in a potpourri burner managed to get us bent for a few minutes, I can only imagine what would happen if you actually extracted the opium from the plants and ingested it.
I'm sure if you got ahold of a copy of PiHKAL by Dr. Alexander Shulgin, the entire process is probably explained in that book somewhere. Not that I'm suggesting anyone actually do that, but Shulgin is notorious for his work with plant extractions and chemical compounds and the effects that they have on people. He did most of his experimenting on himself and his wife, but I swear, if there was a way to get high off of anything, Shulgin probably has done it already.