Extraction - Isopropanol Poppy Pod Extraction

[trichopium]

hey, everyone, swim wanted to tell you guys about a method he recently used to extract a potent smokeable product from poppy pods using isopropanol alcohol.

Swim has tried using water as well as isopropanol alchohol to make a product but has never had amazing results until now. This is Swim's procedure.

Someone who is not you will need:
Isopropanol alcohol, 99% is preferred, 91% or higher may work.
A coffee grinder or something similar that can crush poppy pods into powder.
A metal strainer or cheesecloth.
A stove or some way to boil water.
One large pot and a smaller one.

1. Grind the poppy pods into a fine powder.

2. Mix the alcohol and poppy powder in a bowl, Swim uses a ratio of 10ml per gram of material, so for 20 grams you would use 200ml.

3. Bring some water to a rolling boil. Then pour it into a bowl and let the water sit for 3 minutes. Swim does this because it lets the water cool to less than 176 F, the point at which opiate alkaloids are destroyed. Swim has tested this with a candy thermometer and 3 minutes cools the tempature to about 160F. Swim does this because alkaloids are more soluble in alcohol when the tempature is higher.

4. put the bowl with the isopropanol alcohol in it into the pot with the water. Swim likes to use a pot that can float in the hot water. the bowl with the alcohol will heat up and aid the extraction of the alkaloids.

5. Let the alcohol filled bowl sit in the hot water for 2 hours, then boil some more water and do step 4 again, but this time let it sit for only 15 minutes. the alcohol will be green at this point, dont worry, its normal.

6. Filter the alchohol through a metal strainer or cheesecloth to get the majority of the pod material. the alcohol should still be warm at this point.

7. Then Filter the alchohol through a coffee filter.

8. Evaporate the alcohol and enjoy. Even though the alcohol is green before evaporation, it dries to a dark amber/dark yellow/light brown colour.

Swim gets about .5g of "opium" from 20 grams of good quailty poppy pods, in comparison 10g of the same pods in tea would get swim nicely toasted.

the "opium" obtained from this method smokes and tastes just like the real opium swim has seen; completely vaporising and leaving minimal residue. It even has that same flowery taste real opium has, but only when burned. Swims "opium" has a very light smell before combusted, unlike the strong smell of latex based opium.

does anyone have any experiences with this, what do you think?

thanks
Trichopium

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Good tech!