Cooked Opium.question

[OldManRiver]

swim told me he tried his first attempt to prepare cooked or flaked opium.He used 12 dried poppy heads empied the seeds from the pods (ps strain) crushed the pods and simmerd over a low heat about 150 degrees for about 2 hours used lemon jucie about 8 drops to adjust ph.Let cool to room temp and then strained thru coffee filters the brownish liquid into glass cake pans.Then let water evoprate with no heat (air dry) He said it turned into crystials and not a gummy substance.When it was scraped it was a powery texture and could not roll into a ball.light yellow in color and only produced a very mild buzz and turned rock hard after appying heat and only produced very little smoke.Did swim do something wrong.should fresh pods be used or are the dried ones OK for this?Swim does have a high tolerance to opites he has a bad back problem and has been on oxycotin and perocet DR prescribied for more than five years but is look for more pain relever.