Anybody know what's opium?
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Opium is a highly addictive drug derived from poppy seeds - it is used to produce such Illegal drugs as Heroin, but is also used to provide controlled medical drugs.\n\nAny drug which is derived from Opium is known as an Opiate.
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Buying opium to stop farmers from growing it is like buying wheat to stop farmers from growing it.   Opium is nothing but an agricultural commodity, like any other.   All they will do is grow more & sell it to their private customers.  In fact the exporters will simply out bid the US government; which will have to raise its bid which will lead then to up their bid & we'll end up with a spiraling market; like with any other commodity in short supply.  More & more farmers will get into the market & things will be infinitely worse than it is now.     \n\nAs to the suppression cost; it is irrelevant because we are NOT suppressing the trade.  Every penny spent on fighting it is wasted.
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Panama Red is a legendary cannabis sativa cultivar of the 1960s and 1970s, popular amongst cannabis afficiandos. Panama Red is genetically related to Columbian Red. It is known for causing a racy, paranoia-inducing, psychedelic high. Cannabis culture died off in Panama with the rise of cocaine trafficking. Today, there are still panama red seeds available from collectors.\n\nColumbian Red is a cannabis sativa cultivar genetically related to Panama Red.\n \nCannabis : A History\nby Martin Booth \nThomas Dunne Books, 2004, 368pp.\n\n"...In this densely packed, wide-ranging history, Booth draws on religion, history, ecology, horticulture, linguistics, pop culture and medical research to correct the falsehoods surrounding the oft-banned plant and to painstakingly build his case that the war on cannabis has little to do with concerns for public health or order. Along the way, Booth introduces a dizzying parade of historical persons that includes visionaries, scientists, beatniks, farmers, artists, soldiers and smugglers. Unlike many of the other more partisan books on cannabis, the overall tone of Booth?s volume is objective, unemotional and factual-a stance that makes for fine impartial argument, but also occasionally dull reading. ... In his profile of a plant that can be an intoxicant, fiber, cooking ingredient, medicine and potential source of environmentally friendly products, he gives readers a fascinating sourcebook about "the most widely produced, trafficked and used illicit drug on earth." --Publishers Weekly \n\n\n\nAvaiable at amazon.com
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cant find anything about it. what it about?
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there is plant in chine (i forget the name). i will look it up.
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never heard of it.\nnor has google
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"Chasing in the Dragon" is an ancient term for heroin or opium usage; now, it is primarily used for free-basing heroin, though the term is for heroin use of any type. \n\nIt comes from Ancient Oriental terminology, and "peaked" in the era of British occupation in China, in the "opium dens".
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Its a cheap form of amphetimine (an ingredient in soe cold medicines). It keeps you up, speeds up your heart rate and so on and is generally used to provide energy of to keep you awake (so that you can stay up to enjoy the night). Its basically impossible to overdose and isnt anywhere near as dangerous as something like cocaine (or even cigarettes). The issue with use is that impurities can be mixed in and these can be really bad. The trick if youre going to try it is to make sure you know the person youre getting it from
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1. Originally, any drug derived from opium or opium-like compounds with potent analgesic effects associated with both significant alteration of mood and behavior and potential for dependence and tolerance.\n2. More recently, any drug, synthetic or naturally occurring, with effects similar to those of opium and opium derivatives, including meperidine and fentanyl and its derivatives.\n3. Capable of inducing a state of stuporous analgesia.
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never heard of it ,cant help , sorry
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Heroin and morphine are both opioids, \nderived from the poppy.\n\nMorphine is far less addictive.\n\nUsually people die from mixing opioids \nand cocaine, called a speedball.\n\nOzone is O3 and I'm sure they aren't connected\nin any obvious way.\nOzone isn't even a stable molecule.\n\n3O2 + UV light -> 2O3
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You should google this one, but here's an interesting part \nfrom: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin \n\nManufacturing\n\nHeroin is produced for the black market through opium refinement processes. Unlike drugs such as LSD, the production of which requires considerable expertise in chemistry and access to constituents which are now tightly controlled, the refinement of the first three grades of heroin from opium is a relatively simple process requiring only moderate technical know-how and common chemicals. The final grade of heroin favored in the west is more difficult to produce and involves a potentially dangerous chemical procedure.\n\nFirst morphine is isolated from the crude opium (through being dissolved in water, reacted with lime fertilizer such that it precipates out, and then reacted again with ammonia; what is left is then mechanically filtered to yield a final product of morphine weighing about 90% less than the original quantity of opium). The morphine is reacted with acetic anhydride — a chemical also used in the production of aspirin — in the complicated five-step process used by most refineries in the Golden Triangle. The first step is to cook the morphine at 85°C (185°F) for six hours with an equivalent weight of acetic anhydride. In the second, a treatment of water and hydrochloric acid then purifies the product moderately. When the chemists add sodium carbonate, the particulates settle. Step four involves the heroin being heated in a mixture of alcohol and activated charcoal until the alcohol evaporates. The fifth step is optional, as it only changes the heroin into a finer white powder, more easily injectable; this so-called "no. 4 heroin" is principally exported to the Western markets. In this last, most dangerous step, the heroin (after being dissolved in alchohol), precipates out in tiny white flakes when a mixture of ether and hydrochloric acid is injected; this step is dangerous due to the fact that ether may explode, leveling or severely damaging the refinery (as has happened to a number of such facilities).\n\nThe purity of the extracted morphine determines in large part the quality of the resulting heroin. Most black market heroin is highly impure due to contaminants left after refinement of opium into morphine which then remain in the final product; even if the final product is in the upper range of purity (80 - 99% pure), when the final product reaches the addict, it typically has been cut multiple times, and its purity is down to less than 5%.
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Good question! I want to know about it too\n\n:/ maybe something to do with the wonder wall in china? XDDDD who knows?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_transmission_of_Buddhism
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from the unripe seed pods of the opium poppy
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It's a drug more commonly known as cannabis or marijuana. Here is a link to an interesting website: http://www.urban75.com/Drugs/drugterm.html
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Nope. If someone said that, they are lying and not very creative. Poppy seeds, however, make you test positive for opium. Fear the poppy.