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sethnintendo said:

COKTOE said:

I remember telling a friend all about this a few years ago. Well, as much as I knew about it anyway. It was pretty high up on the evil scale, but a fascinating play.

It was mainly a battle of trade but opium was a pretty big chunk of the conflict hence the name Opium Wars.  Speaking of opium... I've only done it once but I wouldn't mind doing it again.  Problem is opium is hard to find because usually they just turn it into heroin or morphine.

Ha. I've always wanted to try it too. I had a friend of a friend try to explain the experience to me. He tried it in a cave, an actual cave, in China during a trip there. He found it to be an almost overwhelming experience. I was stabbed in the back in 2003, and then also got very sick, partially because of that. The measels, or chicke pox, can't remember, essentally re-avtivated inside my mouth, throat, and esophagus. Most pain I've ever been in in my life. Between the 2 things, they had me in quarantine on IV. I was also on Oxycodone, the pure stuff, not Oxycontin. I left the hospital with over 100 tabs, and as I recovered, began to do it recreationally more than for pain relief. It was probably the best drug I've ever tried. I never got addicted, and went through maybe 2-3 hours of wihdrawal, that was totally quelled by smoking pot for the first time in weeks. So yeah, I get the appeal of opiates.