Opium
COMMON & BRAND NAMES
Joy Plant; Pen Yan; Paregoric
EFFECTS CLASSIFICATION
Euphoric Depressant; Analgesic
CHEMICAL NAME
Mixture
DESCRIPTION
Opium is a naturally occurring analgesic harvested as a latex from ripe Papaver somniferum (opium poppy) pods. It has a long history of use by humans as an oral and smoked psychoactive.
wispy smoke twisting rising rising rising, still.
a taste like flowers, like your hair
rolling tongues soften softer than anything
of such sweetness i could only have dreamed
but the dream is real, it happened it is happening
it will happen again, it is real.
-- Justin Sane
HISTORY #
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ARTICLES & WRITINGS #
The Pleasures of Opium, by Thomas de Quincey
EXPERIENCES #
First Pod Experience, by Murple
Well, It Did Not Work, by Amateur Chemist
Deceptively Mild, by Sinnlos
My Trip to Hell and Back, by Bb
Bad Bhang Recipe, by Blackie Lawless
BOOKS #
The Big Smoke: The Chinese Art & Craft of Opium, by Peter Lee
Confessions of an English Opium Eater, by Thomas De Quincey
Opium: A Portrait of the Heavenly Demon, by Barbara Hodgson
Opium, the Poisoned Poppy, by Michael Robson
Opium For the Masses, by Jim Hogshire
OFF-SITE RESOURCES
HISTORY #
The White Poppy: A History of Opium, by J.M. Scott
ARTICLES & WRITINGS #
World Bank Report on Opium Poppy Production in Afghanistan, Nov 28 2006, worldbank.org
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