I know most "opium" is fake because of the reasons I gave - REAL OPIUM is a BLACK TAR, so if your "opium" is ANYTHING OTHER THEN A BLACK TAR, it is NOT REAL OPIUM ...
And ya gotta look at it from the point of someone with a supply of [raw opioid] who wants to turn a profit - you do NOT MAKE OPIUM, if you have fentanyl, you make HEROIN - yeah, your friends might say "eww, heroin, icky poo" - but there are PLENTY OF PEOPLE to make up the heroin users market...
In order to make "fake opium" you need a few things, namely an OPIOID that can produce OPIUM LIKE EFFECTS.. now, ya gotta realize that opium doesn't bring much on the streets - a few bucks a gram tops.. so, if you were to use, say, fentanyl, you're going to LOSE MONEY as fentanyl does not burn well, hence you need more... and the volume of the shit, well, YOU NEED MORE..
So lets say you have a gram of PURE FENTANYL - do you make 30 pounds of "opium" that would sell for a few bucks a gram? Or do you make a POUND of "heroin" that sells for more then $200 a gram? Lets say you're a drug smuggler - do you want to transport 30 pounds of "opium" or one pound of "heroin"...
Sorry, people are NOT MAKING FAKE OPIUM from REAL NARCOTICS... it is either REAL OPIUM or it's something 100% bullshit - such as Dragons Blood...
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