Opium.

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Opium (or poppy tears, scientific name: Lachryma papaveris) is dried latex obtained
from the seed capsules of the opium poppy Papaver somniferum. (c) Wiki

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Over the thousands of years that have passed, mankind has discovered many substances with narcotic effects. Basically, they all came to us not from laboratories, but directly from nature - psychedelics, cocaine, marijuana, mushrooms. Lots of them. But there's always one special category of substances: Opiates.
Yes, opiates. Those who have not tried them are afraid of them. Those who have tried them confirm with a smile - yes, friend, you should be afraid of opiates. Opiate addiction is probably the best known and most frightening of all addictions. It has been the subject of thousands of books, movies, and TV shows. Just look at the main character's "withdrawal" scene in the movie Trainspotting. ( youtube.com/watch?v=OaSuSnUJm3E )
Cool? No, not cool. What about the sad story of the junkie friends in the movie Requiem for a Dream? That's creepy.
But it's all for the average person, the general public. They should be afraid of opiates, and rightly so. But the next article is not for the gray masses, not for ordinary pot smokers. This article is for those who are familiar with opiates, who have come to understand them, and who love them with all their hearts. Opiates are love for life. Stay away from them.
If you've already experienced the world of opiates and aren't about to turn your back on it, we're ready to tell you how to get opium right in your kitchen.

Home production of opium from poppies Ingredients:

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Acetic anhydride;
IPA+toluene solution (50/50);
Baking soda;
Vinegar.

Raw Opium Harvest:​

If you want to collect the raw material yourself, there are two options: either collect on bandages, or boil straw. In extreme cases, you can boil stems and leaves, but this is a hassle with a low yield. Collecting raw opium on bandages. Sit on a bench or stool (preferably a low bench), place a higher stool/table in front of you. Take a bunch of poppies and clamp it between your knees, take a razor. Cut off the poppy head and place it on that higher stool/table, where the whole bunch is cut off. Almost the entire stool/table is filled with poppy heads, on which large drops of milk have appeared. Cut a piece of bandage about 20 centimeters long. Take the head and wet it on the bandage rolled four times, squeezing each head so that it cracks. The bandage should be packed evenly so that there are no empty "gaps". When the bandage is completely soaked, it needs to be dried over the fire, but don't burn it! When all the poppy has been processed, the bandage must be THOROUGHLY DRIED. This is very important! Novice cooks do not dry the bandage enough and during cooking, most of the high remains in the bandage. A well-dried bandage should be "standing", that is, if it is spread out, it should not bend and be stiff. Do not throw away the heads - there are still many alkaloids in them! Spread them out on paper and dry them. Throw away the seeds from the dried heads. Grind the heads and use as poppy straw.

Cooking:​

Take a piece of bandage (the amount depends on the quality of the product), heat water in an enamel bowl or cup, throw the bandage in, boil and wait until the raw opium transfers from the bandage to the water. Then squeeze the bandage, evaporate the water until a crust forms on the bottom. The crust should be completely dry. Now it's time to anhydride. Pour anhydride into the cup so that it dissolves the entire crust. The crust is stirred during this process. After that, wrap the cup with plastic wrap (stretch), wrap it with tape and put it in a pot of boiling water, where it floats on top. It should float and anhydride for at least 10 minutes, but the longer, the better. After anhydriding is complete, excess anhydride needs to be evaporated over fire, for which you need to remove the film first. Then add some water, mix all the crust in water and repeat the sedimentation (evaporation) procedure on the crust. The vinegar smell decreases during this process. Repeat several times until the vinegar smell completely disappears. Anhydride is toxic! After that, dilute with water, select through a cotton filter on a syringe needle. The filter does not necessarily have to be dense, the product always comes out cloudy, it is normal, no one has been poisoned, as long as it does not smell like vinegar and the original poppy was not decorative. See below for dosages.
How to distinguish decorative poppy is a separate conversation, you just need to see normal poppy and decorative poppy once, they are noticeably different.

Raw opium:​

Where to get opium is a philosophical question, but let's assume that it has been found somewhere. Then opium needs to be carefully smeared on a knife in an even layer and dried over fire until the weight of opium turns into a crust. It may bubble slightly - this is normal, the main thing is not to overcook it. When the opium is dry, take a second knife, completely scrape off the crust and crush it into a fine powder. You can sprinkle it on paper and roll it with a bottle. Pour the resulting powder into a vial with a rubber stopper, pour anhydride over it so that it covers all the black and a small layer forms on top. Close the vial with a rubber stopper. Boil (anhydride) for at least 10 minutes, and in general, the longer, the better. At the end of anhydriding, remove the stopper and pour in boiling water (the vial may burst from cold water). Carefully mix until everything dissolves, pour into an enamel cup and roll. Then everything is the same as with bandages.

Poppy straw:​

Collect poppy heads, use a knife or blade to cut off the stars from the heads and remove the seeds and partitions. Dry them in the oven and then grind them in a meat grinder to create poppy straw. The amount of poppy straw is measured in cups. There are various ways to cook it, including with or without evaporating the solvent. For the standard method, take half a cup of water and two tablespoons of baking soda for every cup of poppy straw. Boil the water in a pot, add the baking soda and mix well until the soda is dissolved as much as possible. Then, without removing from heat, add the poppy straw and vigorously stir until all the straw is soaked in the water with soda. Remove from heat, pour in 500ml of IPA+Toluene solvent per cup, close with a lid and boil on an electric stove for about 5 minutes - longer is bad because oils will start to form, and shorter is also bad because the yield will decrease. Then strain through a cloth, squeezing out all the liquid. The squeezed poppy straw can be cooked again, but the yield of second runs is 5-10 times lower than the first run. For the standard method: Pour the resulting solution, which has a brown-green color, into a dish and evaporate it on an electric stove. This is a dangerous moment - there should be no fire nearby because the solvent evaporates easily and can easily catch fire!!! Pour it onto a crust, add water, mix once to remove all the solvent, then dissolve the crust in boiling water and add vinegar. The vinegar will cause the solution to turn green and become cloudy. Filter the solution through a cotton filter on a syringe needle, pour into a dish, evaporate and pour onto a crust. Then it needs to be anhydrided as described above.

Extraction:​

Extraction is safer in terms of fire hazard than evaporation, but the yield is lower. Take a plastic bottle and pour the solution into it. Pour in the vinegar solution (one-third of the volume of the solution) that you have already prepared, which should be 90 degrees. Close the bottle, shake and turn it upside down. Water, vinegar, and morphine acetate will separate from the solvent into the lower layer, which we will then pour out. Then follow the same steps as described above.

Raw stems and leaves:​

Cooking stems and leaves is a tedious task and requires a lot of raw materials. Everything is finely chopped, boiled in a pot with soda for 20-30 minutes, then strained through cheesecloth, the broth is evaporated and poured onto a crust. Then the crust is dissolved in IPA+toluene while heating, then the solution is left to settle, the upper layer is poured off, and the sediment is filtered through a cotton filter on a syringe needle, then proceed as described above

Dosages:​

Dosages for homemade opiates are individual. The content of morphine in opium can vary greatly (from 15-20% to 60%). A 250ml cup of dry straw is approximately 4 doses. With bandages, it's even more difficult to determine, but a well-soaked bandage should be about 10 for one dose. The stems and leaves contain at least 10 times less morphine than the poppy heads, so this should be taken into account. To enhance the effect, Diphenhydramine is added to the obtained opiate solution at a ratio of 1 tablet per dosage. Promethazine can also be added to further enhance the effect, but it changes the effect.


That's all you need to know to get your own opium. Share your experiences in the comments, and if you have something that does not work in the process of cooking, write to us - we will help!