I'm planning to make good old black tar opium out of any I grow. You need to do further refining to make codeine or morphine out of that and I don't want either of those.
When heroin was created it was touted as a cure for opium addiction and we know how that worked out. Then Oxy was invented and they lied the same lies about that too.
In case anybody doesn't know yet. Big Pharma is not to be trusted.
There are procedures on the interweb on how to extract the goodies from the whole plant and it's not much more involved than making RSO. I have a diploma in chemistry that's pretty old but this won't be hard to do for me. Making silver nitrate was more dangerous than this but easy-peasy too.
I could grow a couple dozen indoors to experiment with then grow a few hundred outside next summer so I can dry them and make batches when I need them. Mom used to grow them back in BC just because they were pretty flowers and 25 years ago I sharpened up the tines on a dinner fork to score the pods and scrape off the sap that oozed out. Just got a little bit I smoked with some hash and it was great. Basically I want to get all that sap out of the plants and have raw opium to ease the pain. With my luck it will just make me sick like morphine but worth a shot.