Real, opiated Thai sticks recipe?

Ok, no one can get the real old school SE Asian Thai sticks anymore, so I was wondering if anyone has tried to make some themselves....and no, not the modern hash oil kind.

There are a few videos on YouTube that show how to make opium by boiling a big bunch of scored opium poppy pods in a big pot of water and mashing them, straining them and then cooking down the liquid until it reduces to a thick tar...That's basically opium...right? So, what about dipping some good weed into the opium tea as it's reducing and then wrapping the dipped buds onto a bamboo stick with some bamboo fiber and letting them dry....yes? no? , maybe?

The sticks I got back in 1975 weren't heavily coated in opium tar. The sticks looked normal. They smelled sickly sweet, though. The process is unknown to me so I thought I'd ask before doing some experiments this summer. Opium poppies are legal to grow...just have to be careful about having scored pods showing!

tstick said:

Ok, no one can get the real old school SE Asian Thai sticks anymore, so I was wondering if anyone has tried to make some themselves....and no, not the modern hash oil kind.

There are a few videos on YouTube that show how to make opium by boiling a big bunch of scored opium poppy pods in a big pot of water and mashing them, straining them and then cooking down the liquid until it reduces to a thick tar...That's basically opium...right? So, what about dipping some good weed into the opium tea as it's reducing and then wrapping the dipped buds onto a bamboo stick with some bamboo fiber and letting them dry....yes? no? , maybe?

The sticks I got back in 1975 weren't heavily coated in opium tar. The sticks looked normal. They smelled sickly sweet, though. The process is unknown to me so I thought I'd ask before doing some experiments this summer. Opium poppies are legal to grow...just have to be careful about having scored pods showing!

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Sounds good

That shit was the best!! I blacked out in a chicken place after smoking some back in about 1980...My buddy said my eyes rolled back in my head and that was all she wrote! Fresh air revived me!! Use to get it on stick and sometimes loose, but it had a very distinctive delicious taste, and only came round about once a year or less. No idea how to replicate.

I have made opium tea a few times...basically boiling the lacerated poppy heads in pure water and filtering out the solids and then boiling the tea until almost all the water is boiled away and all that's left is the sticky tar (opium). I might try dipping a few buds in some concentrated opium tea and letting them air dry and then cure the sticks in jars.
Mt first experience with Thai sticks was when my brother handed me this sad looking pin joint..."Here, bro....Try this" And I looked at it like "WTF is this?" And he lit it up....kinda flamed it...I took a second hit and basically froze in my chair with the headphones on with The Grateful Dead At The Mars Hotel album...Every time the bass drum would beat, I would flinch! My brother was just sitting there smiling at me like "I told you..."

I vaguely remember that I was expecting the joint to taste like weed, but it had that sickly sweet opium smell -almost like peat moss and chocolate....and.....something else...like a jungle sex shop! -a flavor unique to anything else I've ever smoked. Wow! They were good!