Opium
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The inspissated juice of the Papaver somniferum, or whitepoppy.
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Opium is a black sticky tar. The latex or sap that can be harvested from certain species of Poppy plants.
It contains over a dozen drugs.
To name a few:
-Morphine
-Codeine
-Thebaine
-Papaverine
By making a few slight scrapes around the mature seed pod, the white latex will beging to drain.
In a few hours it will have dried into a black tar. That is the unrefined opium.
This process is typically repeated several times.
In countries such as Iran, Holland, Romania, and many others, large amounts are harvested for medical purposes.
In many other cases it is used for the purpose of creating the illegal substance heroin in mass quantity. -
A drug that Edgar Allen Poe used often. This is mentioned in many of his short stories/poems
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[Religion], according to [Karl Marx], in that it makes you [feel good] without actually fixing your [problem]s and may even make matters worse.
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the damned drug that the british sold to the chinese. caused mass addiction and dependence.
opium war of the mid-19th century -
A person that is a slow moving dope (therefore like the drug, opium)
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The best song ever by Marcy Playground
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[A Slow] moving dope - [Eg]. [Leah]
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