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Originally Posted by HighCountryHero
. . . . . and a group smoking started. Bowls, bubblers, vaporizers, bong rips all being used to consume the opium. Then after a long session, it was only appropriate to end with some big knife hits. WOW! This is definitly some of the best opium swim has smoked.
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Anything done with direct heat would not have done anything at all unless it was an opiated hashish. In the case of it being opiated hash it would have been the hash making an effect and not opium. Most active opiate alkaloids which are smokable are destroyed via vaporization @ approx 80 deg Celsius (82.6 deg Celsius for Morphine to be exact).
Anything above this and
the available opiate alkaloids are destroyed immediately before any opium vapor can be produced. "bong hits" or "bowls" of opium would have destroyed long before any effective amount would have been produced even from the best opium in the world.
To put it in a better way. When opium is taken past the point of vaporization it will have produced some opiate alkaloid vapors, these would have been destroyed by the excessive heat. The resulting mass or residue would have carbonized and hardened. This hardened material still holds quite a significant amount of Morphine in it depending on how long the heat was on it for.
Example: if the heat were on it only for a few seconds and one was left with a hardened residue after the initial smoke. The residue which is left will contain about 80% of its original morphine content.
The vaporizers would have been fine, Unsure what SWIyou mean by bubblers tho.
Opium is smoked using an indirect heat source, usually an opium pope, light bulb pipe, essential oil burner, ice / meth pipe, etc. Anything where the flame or heat source will not directly touch the opium. Otherwise it is just too hot and waste is evident.
SWIM is happy to hear of SWIyour adventure tho, and hopes that this information helps with any future adventure SWIyou happen to have in this area.
Hope this has helped