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Originally Posted by SuperJunky

Growing opium poppies is definatly an illegal activity, they list them in some major seed catalogs but will call them other things, such as the bread seed poppy, papaver peoniflorum, hens and chicks etc. The oriental poppy isnt an opium poppy, it contains opiate alkaloids, most noteably thebain, which is a precursor used by the pharmacutical industry to produce variouse opiod painkillers.

This isnt technicaly opium, and you arnt really extracting anything, you are simply making a dilute rinse of the opium that has collected on the seeds. It isnt really smokeable, and you dont want to over heat it, the major active companent 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 drinkingit as a tea. Nasty but effective. Be careful though, you can OD on this stuff if you take to much, and it can definatly be addicting. As my name implys I'm a junky, not that I dont 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 oposite 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 dont over water them. They dont transplant well, though it is possible.

Good Luck w/ your opiate adventures.

i smell a pig!