by Chakravanti » Thu Dec 17, 2009 8:10 pm
RIght, you have to catch the pod about a week before it blooms and make light scrapes/punctures into the outside of the pod wall without puncturing/cutting all the way through. It will bleed a resin and you come back and scrape it up later that day when it dries. That is raw opium. This is done several times before the pod begins to die then it is clipped dried and extracted for 'coooked' or 'flake' opium, which is able to be refined into morphine, thebaine or codeine all of which can be used to synthesize the well known pharmaceuticals such as Heroin (Diacetyl Morphine), Fentanyl (& analogues from thebaine), Hydrocodone/Oxycodone (from codiene) & etc.
Of course, that's all highly illegal in most countries without a pharmaceutical license. So I get all my information from the internetz of course!
Well what is this that I can't see
With ice cold hands takin' hold of me
Well I am death, none can excel
-Ralph Stanley,
O Death!