Your right,smokin opium is not that bad for you,a picture is being painted here that it's like smoking crack, where just a few tokes & your gonna rip off your grandmothers rent money,this is not the case.
I'll bet ive smoked a pound of opium over several decades & i never got hooked,strung out or even craved the stuff,opium used to be EVERYWHERE in the 1970's & very potent shit too.The shit that was on the streets then was strong enough where it would turn you into the village idiot,drooling all over your face & blew out on the sofa for an hour or two,happy to be destroyed too

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There's nothing like the smell of freshly smoked opium either