Oral use - Trip Report: POPPY TEA!

[Woodman]

I just received word from a friend, Rainbow_Man, who returned the following trip report for Drugsforum.

He threatened that some day he would make poppy tea, so I asked him to file a report if he ever actually got around to it.

So, I guess he did, and here it is:

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Woodman,


I made some poppy tea out of dried poppies, and here is a report of ho it went:

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First, I tried to reduce the teat to get opium. This DOES NOT SEEM TO WORK with dried poppies, and I strongly advise D/F members not to attempt this as it amounts to a waste of time and material.

All you end up with is a dark paste which (when heated) reacts like flour dough and just hardens up into a dark brown poppy-cookie crumb.

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Okay, now on to the tea...

The tea making process is relatively easy.

I simply broke open the dried pods to remove the seeds, then crushed the pods in a bowl to get the pieces as small as possible.

The crushed pod material in the bowl was put into a food processor and chopped into even finer pieces.

This material was sifted through a strainer, and the larger parts caught be the strainer were chopped in a coffee bean grinder.

The result was powdered poppies with particles so small that it makes overall diffusion easier, and you won’t have to sit around waiting for hours while large chunks of material become saturated before they give up their alkaloids.

I used three (3) poppy pods, ground them into powder and just added hot tap water to make the tea.

This mixture was done in a pot and put on the stove at the lowest possible heat for 25-30 minutes. I did NOT want to boil it. I just wanted it to keep warm while it was sitting and blending with the water.

When it was done, I lined the bottom of the strainer with a cut out section of an old, cotton T-shirt to use as a filter, then poured the tea-sludge mixture into the strainer. When the liquid stopped filtering, I brought the edges of the T-shirt up around the poppy material to enclose it in the shirt, then wrung the shirt tightly to squeeze out all the remaining liquid.

...and there was my poppy tea!!!

With the tea filtered, I added about a teaspoon of fresh lemon juice (I just squeezed it out from a piece o the lemon. I didn’t actually measure), and since bitterness is a factor, I cut a small lemon wedge and coated it in sugar to bite into after I drank the tea.

Okay, so... I drank the tea (around 4:00pm). Now, here is the trip report:

I drank it on an empty stomach for maximum effect.
For the first 30 minutes, I felt nothing. After that, I started feeling a bit uncomfortable (like you would if you ate too much greasy food the day before). Then I began to feel slightly light- headed; not much, and not in a good nor a bad way. It was just sort of an “indifferent” light-headedness. Frankly, I get a better ride when I come-on from a beer buzz.

So that intensified slightly, and then it just stayed like that. I think it peaked about 1 1/2 hours after I drank the tea and stayed hat way for a good 4-5 hours.

I had a hard time peeing during this trip, so I’m glad I wasn’t drinking any booze on the ride or I might have had a bad experience.

I woke-up the next morning and could still feel myself running a bit slow of normal.

Overall, it was interesting, but not exciting, enlightening, or even fun. I think I would much rather try raw opium; I just don’t know where to get it, and takes too much work to grow yourself.

I don’t think I would repeat this unless I became sick with fever and feeling horrible, just to see how it would work medicinally. Untill then, I'm sticking to beer!

Send my regards along to your friends in the forum for me. Tell them I’ll try to keep in touch.


Later Woodman!
Keep 'em cold for me.

Your pal,
Rainbow_Man