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    Emperor Marcus Aurelius and the History of Opium Addiction

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    As previously mentioned, opium is derived from the unripe seedpod of the flower
    Papaver
    somniferum.
    Sumerian ideograms, dated to 4,000 B.C., show the poppy as a plant of joy – likely
    the first record of human opium consumption (Scott, 1969). In Egypt, around 1,500 B.C., the
    Therapeutic Papyrus of Thebes was written. Within this early medical document, opium was
    listed as a cure for colic in infants. In J.M. Scott’s history of opium, he describes this effect as an
    example of the chief attraction of opium as a medicine. It is guaranteed to show results. Even if it
    does not cure the disease it removes the pain, which is all the unscientific patient worries about.
    It soothes both body and mind (Scott, 1969).
    It is likely for this reason that it was used ‘medicinally’ by the Assyrians, who knew little
    of disease (Scott, 1969). Opium is cures practically all symptoms, and therefore has been
    heralded throughout its history as a cure for virtually any illness.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
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    . Opium is cures practically all symptoms, and therefore has been
    heralded throughout its history as a cure for virtually any illness.


    Don't wait . Get as much as possible up your bum as you can manage .
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    Quote Originally Posted by Carygrant View Post
    Don't wait . Get as much as possible up your bum as you can manage .
    Cary, your homosexual advances are getting a little creepy now. Stick to the topic, $#@! tits.
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    San Francisco, early 1900s, man smoking opium with his cat.



    Opium den in New York City, early 20th century.


    The magnificent Billie Holiday when she was arrested for opium possession in 1949:



    Young kid smoking opium, late 1800s:
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    When I took Recon 1 at Camp Red Cloud.....I got to see what a Korean Opium Hut was like. They seal up the Doorway and any openings with Mud. Once you go in, there is no leaving until the session is done. Guys talked about it and that it was so hard to breathe in the Hut. All lay on the ground. Some said they had to use lil tiny tubes to the outside just so one could breathe.
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    Nice pics. Yeah, it must be difficult to breathe but your system probably slows down enough that you can handle it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    Nice pics. Yeah, it must be difficult to breathe but your system probably slows down enough that you can handle it.

    Yeah, and there is no place for the Smoke to go. Some of the guys said they could get a contact buzz just being in the hut right after a sesssion with things opened up. Myself i never did. I walked in and looked around. Just a mud hut. Although, there is no mistaking the soap smell.
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    I've tried heroin (powder) a long time ago and I can see how this stuff could become a lifestyle.
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    Like the OP states, I can also understand why it took virtually every painful symptom of disease away.
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    In 1874, the German pharmacist Dreser created Heroin (derived from hero) using morphine as a basic ingredient and sold the formula to Bayer, a pharmaceutical concern, which made the drug available as an over the counter medicine.
    Around the same time, so called opium dens were popular especially in china, where people would meet to consume opium together. Later, opium dens became notorious fixtures of many Chinatowns around the world and in 1875, the first law outright prohibiting the use of opium was passed in San Francisco, California. It was stated that "many women and young girls, as well as young men of respectable family, were being induced to visit the Chinese opium-smoking dens, where they were ruined morally and otherwise," though there is no evidence to suggest this ever happened.
    Today, it is estimated that 75% of the heroin consumed in Europe is prepared from Taliban opium stocks and the opium and heroin trafficking out of Afghanistan totals more than $1 billion US dollar. The opium traffic is suspected to have helped fund al Qaeda and other terrorist groups from around Southern Asia.

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    It was sold over the Counter by Bayer. Also Spread thru medicinal Wagons across the West.

    Myself I never tried Heroin. But I have smoked opium back in the day. I really didnt get much from it and preferred Hash, or Kief. Course the Connisuers of Mary Jane!
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