Yeah, although I've only extracted small amounts of latex from home grown poppies, it was very similar to the gram I bought off Silk Road, in taste, smell, appearance etc. So I'm pretty sure I received the genuine article.
Also someone with more experience, who knew about these things, ordered the same thing, and confirmed that it was 'good stuff', or words to that effect.
Not too sure regarding how refined it was though. It was a solid colour and texture throughout though, which I guess boded well, as to it being more refined than unrefined.
I'm more interested in opium than heroin for 2 reasons tbh:
Far less stigma, it seems to me that it's more of an 'exotic' item rather than something that is so heavily stigmatised, and it's essentially just the 'natural', 'minimally processed' version of the same substance, as far as I have gathered, at least.
I'm already carrying more than enough stigmatised things, and I can do without adding what would probably be the most heavily stigmatised thing of all, on top. No judgement on those that do use heroin, but it's just not for me.