brassy wrote: ↑Sat May 15, 2021 5:23 pm
but I'm curious about it, if anyone wishes to share their experiences.
Thanks!
I will share my experience , - I hope its not to long and uhh - against the rules
I will say this first - as a straight answer - poppy pod tea has morphine, codeine and thebaine in it . Its a very strong and effective opiate. . It is not illegal to grow it in your yard. It is an effective opiate/ painkiller that you can produce yourself or source from nature. In emergency situations it would be smart to plant or grow some . I don't think you could take it in capsules , for me it took about a cup full of dried powder to be effective (edit; half a cup- 3 or 4 pods for most people, the potency from batch to batch varies quite a bit) - but you could make that into a tea . I guess you could give it to your dog. I don't think there is a lot of danger of overdose , but - it's just the same as an other opiate
and you would have to make your dog drink the tea , which would be difficult . Definitely will give you the nods. There are probably a lot better ways to help your dog.
If you are a regularly take kratom you will not feel the effects of it as strongly unless you are taking a break or having WD's from kratom because kratom competes with the receptors in the same way that naltrexone does. Thats just what I think , I don't know what the science behind that might be . But - it's true .
- I was strung out on opiates for a really long time. Intravenous ,etc. For like 15 years. The first step in my harm reduction program was poppy tea. My reasoning was that I wasn't breaking the law, I wasn't using needles, and my risk of OD was greatly decreased. As I said , this was a harm reduction maneuver. I picked the dried pods out of other peoples yards, and growing in wild places, during late July and August is when you sill see them in their dried optimal state. . And then I started ordering them on line in the winter months. And planting the seeds around town .
I have never had good luck with washing the seeds. Maybe that is because my tolerance or whatever. I just ground up the dried pods in a coffee grinder and either made a tea or just drank the dried powder down.
I came to enjoy the pods more than I liked heroin for a few different reason , one being that a dose of pods powder in the morning has legs for the whole day , I think as it digests in you system it slowly releases. I would sometimes take another dose in the afternoon . But even just a dose in the morning I could still feel upon waking up the NEXT morning. I slept very well , as you might imagine .
I did this for about 3 straight years and , I tried to quit a number of times with but, the withdrawals are every bit as horrible as heroin withdrawals . Very difficult to stop . I was eventually forced to quit by LE and being put in jail .
Anyway - I was writing a novel there , sorry . To make a long story short. I do take them occasionally during T breaks. Since I have been taking kratom these last 5 years I do not crave it , when I do take it it does not have the same effect that it used to have . There is something in kratom that changed the effects of both opiates and alchohol and makes them less desirable . For me at least . This is nothing short of miraculous for me .
The other difference, that is hard to articulate. is like I was saying - opiates made my shitty life tolerable . I don't know how to explain it , but kratom gives me the motivation to make my life better. Since I got off the pods and started taking kratom I have changed my life in ways that have blown my mind. I won't go into it -- but , My life is about 500% better and every day I wake up with he motivation to keep doing the things that proactively make my life better .
I try not to judge people that talk about kratom withdrawls and their difficulties, but - the severity of the withdrawls and the craving are about 1/10 of what pod cravings and withdrawls were for me . I skipped days of work if I couldn't get pods , Or left work in the middle of the day to go to the post office . nothing even remotely similar to that has happened because of my kratom use .