a friend of mine uses opium a lot. he drinks opium tea about once a week, and is an avid opium eater and smoker. this person has 3 good sources for raw opium latex and buys it fairly avidly. until recently hed only smoked it (a method which produces a very strong high, that very quickly loses potency) or eaten it (this method takes a while to come up, requires about 3 grams of material [which is more than 12 times what it takes when smoked or vaporized] but lasts around 8 hours and provides a very nice high). but recently two of his sources had been telling him about chewing(sort of a"dip")and how in their home countries its often sold flavored for this purpose. well recently this friend had 8 grams of mixed (hard black tar and light reddish tan latexes mixed which sheared a true light tan color) opium tars, and this being such an odd amount decided to try the dip method. so a gram was slowly and laboriously twisted off of the whole gob, flattened, and placed under the toungue. IT TASTES HORRIBLE. no wonder they flavored it. well within about an hour, after it had dissolved in his mouth and the bitter flavour had subsided he began to feel quite warm, and very calm. very soon he was HIGH, very high. it provided a nice middle of the road point between smoking and eating. it takes about 4 times what you need when smoked and about one third of what ingestion requires, and yet lasts 2 hours longer than if youd smoked it but 2 hours less than actual ingestion. overall it was fully worth it, and my friend may begin using all of his opium tars sublingually.
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