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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 just happened upon your question. The amount of substance you can get from a single pod is quite small. Like you couldn't just grow one poppy and use it in any form to get basically any effect. The amount of resin extracted through the lancing of the premature pod is quite small and usually done with a special tool but a razor blade would work. There are something like 200 and something alkaloids in opium which is the derivative of the poppy resin.
"Four opium poppy capsules, without seeds, which had already been used for opium production by lancing were analysed for their morphine content using a spectrophotometric method. The capsules were found to contain between 0.15 to 0.34 per cent of morphine."
These were purchased as "dried flowers". Though the amount can differ depending on the breeding from what I have read it seems that you can't get that much from a single pod or even 10. Relative of course to the effort put into growing the plant(s). Mind you I don't endorse the misuse of the pods or of any information contained herein.


-Kaos

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