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.
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.
As they say in the hills of Thailand/Burma, "Anybody who smokes more than three pipes of opium a day is an addict."
by Cade October 07, 2004
Opium is a tar-like drug, most often black in color. It tastes like no other, being made from poppies. It makes you feel like you're floating, yet sinking into your couch. It's amazing: afterall, there was a war over opium...
by indiewendi January 17, 2008
by aub March 31, 2005
the damned drug that the british sold to the chinese. caused mass addiction and dependence.
opium war of the mid-19th century
opium war of the mid-19th century
don't be smokin opium. it's bad for you.
by squee1 August 15, 2005
Religion, according to Karl Marx, in that it makes you feel good without actually fixing your problems and may even make matters worse.
"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness." - Karl Marx, 1844
by Anon April 19, 2005
A drug made when you scrape the seed off the top of a poppy flower and when the liquid turns black that comes out you scrape it off and smoke it
by bo September 14, 2003
by Dan the Man December 06, 2004