I've seen the same very rarely - but initially I thought that it was at the behest of foreigners to Thailand wanting an extra side to their high - as if the 'erb could be augmented or improved somehow - by rolling it in opium - so of course
- I had to try it - I guess it all started in '84 - when The Professor first introduced me to his 'No Headache' mixture - which included good Thai sativa - and black tar like opium - along with the obligatory crumbled Bayer Aspirin - toking any opium is heavy on the lungs - so I've discovered - gawd knows how toxic toking Aspirin is - <chokes!>
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The further North you travelled - the more prevalent opium and heroin was - nearly everyone seemed to have poppies growing somewhere - and it was prepared for smoking in many ways - often mixed with 'erb/tobacco - or just on its own - cannabis cultivation was evident too - in areas far from the long arm of the law - such as The Golden Triangle - where the Shan Army ruled under Khun Sa - and supplied much of the illicit narcotics and 'erb to and thru Thailand during the 70's - 80's
I've seen the same very rarely - but initially I thought that it was at the behest of foreigners to Thailand wanting an extra side to their high - as if the 'erb could be augmenteg or improved somehow - by rolling it in opium - so of course
Anyway - as for opiated Thai Sticks - yes - have seen it done many years ago (late 70's early 80's) - but not on a massively commercial basis - looked to be only an item available thru personal order - because it wasn't a constantly available product - as far as I know - you would rarely if ever see opiated Thai Sticks - that is why even today it's a sorta myth - to most all people - seeing is believing -
It was always better to smoke the opium in a prepared pipe - usually the person selling you a pipe of opium - would prepare it for you - and help light the pipe - as you toked in repose/relaxed - so as not to have to worry about anything other than toking on the pipe - and getting your lungs filled with opium smoke - to achieve the desired effect -Story I read was the Thai Sticks were suspended over the pots of opium as it was boiled to make morphine.
The steam coming off the opium is called early water .
Raw opium, which has a strong odor that can be easily detected by customs officials, must be converted into morphine base before it can be transported out of the country. To create morphine base, the opium is added to boiling water. The raw opium dissolves into a clear brown liquid or “liquid opium.” Plant scrapings and other impurities float to the top to be scooped up. Slaked lime is then added to the liquid so that the morphine alkaloid reacts with the lime to form a solution. The solution is poured through a filter to remove any impurities, such as other alkaloids, that have sunk to the bottom. Concentrated ammonia is added to the solution and is then reheated. The morphine solidifies and settles at the bottom of the pot. A cloth is used to filter out the solid white chunks of morphine base. The morphine base, also known as “Heroin No. 1,” which makes up about 10 percent of the original quantity of raw opium, is wrapped into blocks and dried out in the sun. The blocks are now ready to be shipped to heroin laboratories.
From Poppy To Heroin ~ Step 3: Extracting Morphine | Wide Angle | PBS
An Afghan farmer sells a bag of raw opium in an opium shop in Helmand province in western Afghanistan. (Photo: AP) Raw opium, which has a strong odor that can be easily detected by customs officials, must be converted into morphine base before it can be transported out of the country. To create...www.pbs.org
The sticks would be under an inverted pan that would collect the steam from the boiling water and condense it and drip back onto the kancha .
I even saw a diagram of the process . So either some people had vivid imaginations or some of the waste from the opium brewing was repurposed .
@gypsy I met a guy on a bus back from Chiang Mai who had opium he was trying to smoke in roll your own tobacco cigarettes .Sat next to him and pretty quickly regreted it . He said check these baby elephant tusks I picked up from the Hill Tibes . Along with the opium . He told me it didn`t work very well smoking it that way . Were you smoking it in a pipe ?
I tried to warn him that Ivory smuggling would get him into some serious trouble and he should consider ditching those tusks .
Then ,,, we arrived at an army road block . Young conscripts with M16s . The Captain boarded the bus and started making his way down the aisle . I pulled out my pass port and waved it . Hoping an Ozzie pass port might mean some sanctuary . LOL .
So there was purple weed in Thailand in 1974....
That's what I read, that it was waste from the process...God help us if they ever sell that at the 7-11. It was so good. The herb I got was grown with love. It was just amazing. Couchlock destruction. At the time I didn't understand that the narcotic effect of it was due to the opium. Someone more seasoned would have smelled it on the bud.Story I read was the Thai Sticks were suspended over the pots of opium as it was boiled to make morphine.
The steam coming off the opium is called early water .
Raw opium, which has a strong odor that can be easily detected by customs officials, must be converted into morphine base before it can be transported out of the country. To create morphine base, the opium is added to boiling water. The raw opium dissolves into a clear brown liquid or “liquid opium.” Plant scrapings and other impurities float to the top to be scooped up. Slaked lime is then added to the liquid so that the morphine alkaloid reacts with the lime to form a solution. The solution is poured through a filter to remove any impurities, such as other alkaloids, that have sunk to the bottom. Concentrated ammonia is added to the solution and is then reheated. The morphine solidifies and settles at the bottom of the pot. A cloth is used to filter out the solid white chunks of morphine base. The morphine base, also known as “Heroin No. 1,” which makes up about 10 percent of the original quantity of raw opium, is wrapped into blocks and dried out in the sun. The blocks are now ready to be shipped to heroin laboratories.
From Poppy To Heroin ~ Step 3: Extracting Morphine | Wide Angle | PBS
An Afghan farmer sells a bag of raw opium in an opium shop in Helmand province in western Afghanistan. (Photo: AP) Raw opium, which has a strong odor that can be easily detected by customs officials, must be converted into morphine base before it can be transported out of the country. To create...www.pbs.org
The sticks would be under an inverted pan that would collect the steam from the boiling water and condense it and drip back onto the kancha .
I even saw a diagram of the process . So either some people had vivid imaginations or some of the waste from the opium brewing was repurposed .
@gypsy I met a guy on a bus back from Chiang Mai who had opium he was trying to smoke in roll your own tobacco cigarettes .Sat next to him and pretty quickly regreted it . He said check these baby elephant tusks I picked up from the Hill Tibes . Along with the opium . He told me it didn`t work very well smoking it that way . Were you smoking it in a pipe ?
I tried to warn him that Ivory smuggling would get him into some serious trouble and he should consider ditching those tusks .
Then ,,, we arrived at an army road block . Young conscripts with M16s . The Captain boarded the bus and started making his way down the aisle . I pulled out my pass port and waved it . Hoping an Ozzie pass port might mean some sanctuary . LOL .
I saw some 19th century opium pipes in a museum. From the days of Jack Black- You Can't Win. What a great book. The original On The Road. Old junkie tales of the old west.
there is another from 1975 that lists green stick and purple sticks.
and most have never had it
UNODC - Bulletin on Narcotics - 1965 Issue 3 - 001
IME (every year) They can handle snow and frost no issue, happens all the time here, 28F / -2 C is the real cut off and if for long enough there's no coming back...Sativas that is, Indicas long before this melt away, Sativas are strong, you're right though slow temps at night and cool soil into mornings slow them down a ton, ripening is all that occurs then.
Not always but it happened more than once, as I said in another post it depends of the settings where I smoke, in situations where I'm not comfortable enough it will make me paranoid but in the good conditions it will be a much more pleasing ride. But it's true some east asian sativas can quickly make me anxious as it's already in my nature. We all react differently because we don't all have the same mental state and even one person don't always have the same mental.
This was my experience as well when I've grown long flowering plants at lat 44N in France, past the 15 october you can have some freezing nights and a lot of humidity. Any plants needing to go longer thazn october will completely stop growing new calyxes and slowly mature. Even indoor I've seen plants being slow down because the soil in their pots was too cold, it happened when I switched to LED in the winter.
Interesting, I always believed you need a chemical product to dissolve raw opium in liquid form like it is with THC and fat. Raw opium is not easy to be smoked and having someone with adequate knowledge making you a pipe is a good way to not waste it because if you don't know what you're doing most of it will be lost in the air. I have very rarely seen real raw opium in my life, each time it was brought back by travelers from India or east asia. But in Europe there are a lot of pharmaceutical poppy fields to make legal medicines and often some people will steal some part of those crops to cook the bulbs in what is called rashasha. Now that I think about it, it's the same as dissolving raw opium in straight water so the begininng of my post is pointless, sorry.Story I read was the Thai Sticks were suspended over the pots of opium as it was boiled to make morphine.
The steam coming off the opium is called early water .
Raw opium, which has a strong odor that can be easily detected by customs officials, must be converted into morphine base before it can be transported out of the country. To create morphine base, the opium is added to boiling water. The raw opium dissolves into a clear brown liquid or “liquid opium.” Plant scrapings and other impurities float to the top to be scooped up. Slaked lime is then added to the liquid so that the morphine alkaloid reacts with the lime to form a solution. The solution is poured through a filter to remove any impurities, such as other alkaloids, that have sunk to the bottom. Concentrated ammonia is added to the solution and is then reheated. The morphine solidifies and settles at the bottom of the pot. A cloth is used to filter out the solid white chunks of morphine base. The morphine base, also known as “Heroin No. 1,” which makes up about 10 percent of the original quantity of raw opium, is wrapped into blocks and dried out in the sun. The blocks are now ready to be shipped to heroin laboratories.
From Poppy To Heroin ~ Step 3: Extracting Morphine | Wide Angle | PBS
An Afghan farmer sells a bag of raw opium in an opium shop in Helmand province in western Afghanistan. (Photo: AP) Raw opium, which has a strong odor that can be easily detected by customs officials, must be converted into morphine base before it can be transported out of the country. To create...www.pbs.org
The sticks would be under an inverted pan that would collect the steam from the boiling water and condense it and drip back onto the kancha .
I even saw a diagram of the process . So either some people had vivid imaginations or some of the waste from the opium brewing was repurposed .
@gypsy I met a guy on a bus back from Chiang Mai who had opium he was trying to smoke in roll your own tobacco cigarettes .Sat next to him and pretty quickly regreted it . He said check these baby elephant tusks I picked up from the Hill Tibes . Along with the opium . He told me it didn`t work very well smoking it that way . Were you smoking it in a pipe ?
I tried to warn him that Ivory smuggling would get him into some serious trouble and he should consider ditching those tusks .
Then ,,, we arrived at an army road block . Young conscripts with M16s . The Captain boarded the bus and started making his way down the aisle . I pulled out my pass port and waved it . Hoping an Ozzie pass port might mean some sanctuary . LOL .
