[SuperJunky]

Growing opium poppies is definitely an illegal activity, they are one of only two plants originally listed in the drug laws, and only the seeds for the purpose of consumption are exempt. for a while there was a poppy control act but it was repealed when because poppies where already made illegal. They list them in some major seed catalogs but will call them other things, such as the bread seed poppy, papaver paeoniflorum, hens and chicks etc. The oriental poppy isn't an opium poppy, it contains opiate alkaloids, most notably thebain, which is a precursor used by the pharmacutical industry to produce various opiod painkillers. Papaver Rhoes (sp?) is also available comercialy, and is active for those that don't have a tolerance, but arent opium poppies. California poppies and papaver atlanticium (sp?) are also active in there own ways, but are not opium poppies.

This isn't technically opium, and you arnt really extracting anything, you are simply making a dilute rinse of the opium that has collected on the seeds. It isn't really smoke-able, and you don't want to over heat it, the major active component is morphine, which is destroyed at high temperatures, so if you where to scorch or burn this it would destroy a good deal of the goodies. You would be better off drinking it as a tea. Nasty but effective. Be careful though, you can OD on this stuff if you take to much, and it can definitely be addicting. As my name implies I'm a junky, not that I don't like weed, I just love opies, and I know what I love, this is all 100% correct info.

And to the person that asked about flowering poppies, they're the opposite of MJ, they need lengthening days to flower instead of shortening. Try16 hours of light or so and grow them under 11 or 12. Poppies are best grown outdoors though, and don't over water them. They don't transplant well, though it is possible.

Good Luck w/ your opiate adventures.