I am almost positive I never smoked raw Opium but I really have no idea what the stuff I used to smoke back in college was cause it did used to get me and my friends high and it tasted great, but the high was extremely mild, too mild for me to think that it could have been real Opium, but I just don't know, and I never ate it.
We'd smoke it either by itself or on top of weed, sometimes with hash too, and it would be little black sticky balls that smelled really good that were usually sold inside the cellophane they pack cigarettes in.
I mean, how can you know if what you are smoking is real opium, and are there levels to how "real" or "pure" it is like any other drug?
I mean, I've got to assume that SOME of what was in it was real opium, but if it was mixed with anything else what could it have been mixed with, or if not, is there such thing as real Opium that is just weak and inferior in quality to better or "raw" opium?
What's the distinction between "raw" and "real but not so great"?
Sometimes we'd get stuff that was worse than what we'd usually get which was called "Red Rock" and which we'd call "soapium" lol, and we even knew that was fake but it gave a mild buzz, but that other stuff gave more of a high and tasted and smelled different but it was still weak.
It's like, I had never even done Oxy, Vicodin or even Kratom at that point (I've never done harder Opioids like Heroin or Morphine and never will...well actually, I'd "accept" Morphine if I was in a hospital for sure haha), so I had ZERO reference point for any kind of Opioid/Opiate back then and nothing to compare it to other than weed, hash and psychedelics like LSD, Shrooms and Salvia, but now that I have used strong Kratom extract, good Kratom, Codeine and reasonably strong doses of Oxy, Vicodin and Hydrocodone syrup I look back on that Opium we smoked and realize that it was really no stronger than a decent dose of Codeine, albeit with a different feel.
Is it possible for Opium to be as weak as Codeine but still be real??
Cause I always thought that any real opium would knock you on your ass, but this stuff generally got me less high than weed, even though it was nice.
I would certainly consider a good dose of any reasonable plain leaf Kratom to be MUCH stronger than what we smoked, but we all thought of it as being real stuff.