Some of the batches of dried pods that are doing the rounds currently are nothing like the batches of a few years ago. Most of the 'good alkaloids' have been removed (either deliberately or not I don't know) from the currently easily available batches of dried poppy pods in the UK.
A few years ago you could get major opioid effects from a few pods, heavy nods and itches and all that sort of good stuff. These days all the pods do is give a decent stimmy energetic mood and confidence uplift and a bit of relaxation, and an increase in appetite, and some gastro intestinal 'soothing'. I still like these pods, even though they are significantly less than they used to be; they do still have some value in my opinion, but they are nothing like they used to be.
I grind them down in a grinder, and there is no difference in the effects whether I have 2 grinders full of powder soaked in litres of just off the boil water, or a fraction of that dose. THis is the equivalent of 4-`12 large pods. As there is no difference it's only logical to use the minimum amount that yields the effects, such as they are, and so this is what I do.
In the 'good old days' I would have been comatose or dead on such a dose of 12 or more large potent pods. And I would have been heavily physically addicted and into significant w/d territory with continued daily use. Now there is no withdrawl, other than GI upset, lack of energy and lowered mood. They just aren't potent any more.
The dried pods easily keep for years Axe Battler.
