Ok here is what a friend of mine told me, whom I lost contact with so I can't ask him more questions etc. Its a bit messy but maybe you get the point. Also if anyone with experience got reccommandations to this method etc please share it, and if anyone would make this into an easy to understand step-by-step method that would be very nice. Here we go;
" have u personal experience with extracting smokeable opium from dried poppies?"
"yes..... i was working on a process when i left I'm thinking about the whole plants, roots also, heard they contain high morphine content improving it yeah, I met this guy right before I left who was making ounces of alkaloid xtract used a cold ch3OH (metanol) xtraction w/ blender then he added water to the green filtered juice to precipitate unwanted stuff filtered again.... may have stopped there... not sure I got a pretty good method without methanol just before I left...or developed it Well... I'd probably try two ways... cuz i'm not sure yet which is best but I'll describe my personal discoveries first put the wet plants in the freezer take them out the next day dry them to crunchyness (freeze - thaw broke up plant tissues for you) then figure out how to get them ground up pretty fine.... I was using an electric coffe grinder for small amts... but the freeze thaw means everthing comes out in room temp acidic h2o vey easily so you might not have to grind them too much soak.... 20 minutes or so... In water with say 1/4 valume vinegar... or just go to ph 3 or 4 ... if you've got paper then... filter the liquid... (taste your filtered plant material (chew it) to see if you can detect the alkaloid taste present in the un extracted (do the cold tea at least twice ... now... here's the neat part Add ammonia (cleaning ammonia) or NaOH diluted a bit... untill you see a precipitate form in your clear filtered solution... yay! pure alkaloids you just gotta figure out how to get them out... they are freebases now... seems best to convert them back to the hcl salt after you have filterd them out smoking freebase morphine etc...doesn't seem to work that well... I found that it was so fine it went thru my coffee filters I don't much like smoking raw opium...but have you heard about the cooked opium process.. its not raw opium that would be left in filtered solution mentioned above when evaporated if you skip the ammonia and hcl step But, if you have the latex black stuff..... you kinda get something similar... but the plant has like...chlorophyll and stuff...that came out during the tea process that aint fun to smoke If I remember you kinda get a black oil... but there's no latex in it as that is insoluble just other junk which you don't get in raw opium... but.... I was doing so many variations... not sure if i ever tried just drying it out before the precipitastion collecting the dried opium from sliced pods is the only way to get raw opium yes... but if you do my precipitation you get something better... pretty much a pure crystalyzed alkaloid mixture compared to raw or cooked opium its far better for your lungs have you had the cooked? it's perhaps the same to 2X the strength raw is like 1/4 the strength of cooked cooked is really good....almost like smoking H I think I told you my most recent understandings... when you basify you want to add use enough... that it doesn't seem to be getting cloudier anymore... otherwise you'll leave good stuff in the sol'n I found that if you heated it to near boiling next the precip coagulated a bit... and would settle to the bottom so I could draw off the liquid at the top and wash it with basic water....wait settle... good chem grade precipitate collecting filter papers might all allow you to avoid that tho try to use low volume of liquid to extract the plants... you want as concentrated a solution as possible without having to boil it down... opiate HCl salts are _extremely- soluble in H2o like 1gram per 2 ml or something ourageous like that anyway.... that gives you some basis to xperiment on... if you discover better things tell me.... and the methanol... It still might be the way to go...but you get all these irritating lipids...and the latex dissolves... maybe extracting with it... allowing easy evaporation to near dryness...then acidified water... might dissolve mostly good stuff." Thats it, enjoy!
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