Papaver Somniferum L., the opium poppy. They're commonly used in flower arrangements and you can find them regularly in flower shops, craft stores, and basically anywhere that carries an assortment of dried floral. Most times than not people just don't realize what they have, don't think theres enough opium to be extracted, or don't assume that the dried poppy can be used for opium production just as much as the live one can be.

Instead of the scratch and score method where one takes a sharp blade and scores the side of a live poppy, deep enough to cause it to bleed out its sticky white latex, which once dried is opium, the method of deseeding the dried poppy pods then buzzing the remaining pieces with a coffee grinder until the product to be used is just a fine powder is used.

To use this method one buzzes about 10 deseeded poppy pods, per person, then takes the fine powdery remains and submerges them in just-boiling water, allowing them to steep then cool over the course of anywhere between just 15 minutes and at most 45 minutes. Then, with a series of filtering to sieve away the spent schwag until you're left with just a cloudy, even sometimes milky-sludgy tea. The tea you can drink, or lay out in a pan and evaporate, for the sticky black sludge left behind is opium.


Would anyone know if buying dried poppy pods (Tasmanian or turkish) online in by the per case would be a viable way of producing this tea for recreational and person use?

i once read an entire article on those plants... I learned that the difference between a jailed up manufacture and a Gardner is all about what you know. if they (gov) can prove you knew wtf you were doing they can charge you with knowingly possessing the poppy plant and intent to distribute depending on how much you order off the net... I would say now that you have posted your intent, I would stick with the local gardners whom know not what they posess!!! I fuckin love poppy tea!