First off to go grow, I know you gave me credit, I was not having a good day. didn't mean to sound cross. BHowever, by "research" I meant several conversations with a 60 year old ex hippie. hours of talking altogether. It's not like I JUST read the huge government testing synopsis of 25 years of research done by both the CIA and the DEA. I put a shit-load of effort into this thread, and it seemed like it got brushed aside the second time around. no offence.
skinnypuppy, you have seen with your own eyes that they throw opium water away and that poor villagers want it. thats cool. But, no offence meant to you, did you see them dipping Thai-Sticks in it? Because the previously classified study I read (which was a couple hundred pages long, and yes I read the whole thing. It was source material for a term paper, I had to get a copy sent from the archives in D.C., and I now believe the copy I used is resting at the library I did the majority or my research in.) said the actual tests turned up Hash Oil every time over a period of, I believe, 25 years. I believe there was even something about "rumors" that Thai Sticks were being adulterated with opium, however none of these proved to be true over the entire length of the study. In all the tests done over the years, no marijuana products were found to contain ANY opiates, except for a few samples of Turkish hash from the mid-seventies (probably the black kind my dad seemed to like so well, lol). It is not cost effective to lace weak drugs with stronger drugs. Anyway, this study that I actually researched for a legitimate paper said that out of all tests done by the CIA abroad or the DEA at home with foreign drugs, over a 25 year period (most of the sixties, the entire seventies, part of the eighties) no Thai Sticks were tested with any Opiates, just lots and lots of hash every single time. Also, who would throw "opium water" away? If some liquid at a drug factory still has any drug in it, it gets refined into product. otherwise, you are literally throwing money down the drain. why wouldn't that "opium water" get turned into opium.
I have made opium myself, out of papaver somniferum (opium poppy), and If you have opoids suspended in water, all you need to do is slowly let the water evaporate and soon you have pretty high grade opium. I suspect this "opium water" to be a chemical by-product of the conversion of opium into morphine, the second step towards heroin. Theres a little opium in that, as well as all kinds of nasty shit, and if they were throwing it away, it wasn't worth anything. Maybe there's trace amounts of opium amongst the chemicals that the villagers are able to extract in small amounts to use to trade or barter in their rudimentary economies, which are usually based on drugs anyway (rather than precious metals and commodities, like most civilized countries where a smaller percentage of the poor are exploited). I don't think people who produce hard drugs are the type of people who would get rid of something that could potentially make them money, Which 'opium water' would, if thats what it was.
Also, If you use common sense, why wouldn't it be sprayed with Hash oil? Thai Sticks were heavily processed, especially for marijuana, the way they were wrapped onto those sticks with hemp rope or whatever. They would have alot of raw by-product like sugar leaves and fan leaves. stuff that contains THC. Someone smart might make all that shit into hash oil and make their weed so strong that 30 years later, people still think it was laced with opium, lol.
There is something to the PURITY of the high offered by certain varieties. These landrace strains are still around, and I think they are gonna be making a comeback pretty soon. If people can "re-find" all these lost and muddled strains, and inbreed for potency a couple times... these old school guys and gals could be in heaven!
