I will explain why opium isn't on the drug market (except if someone grows it and shares it with friends) as best I can.
I can tell you that someone isn't going to bother growing opium to make money for the simple fact that it is too much work for too little profit. Why the fuck would you have a yard full of illegal poppies to get an oz of opium that people would spent 20 bucks per gram, thats $660 for 140 days of growing flowers, probally would take no less then 30 hours of work to milk them, and then of course you have to consider you are risking your ass growing poppies. know what they are missing. Just look at how Doesn't make much sense to me, why not grow mushrooms which are much less work and would yield much more mushrooms as well as money in a 2 month time period. You could also of course grow marijuana and make even more money with just 3 or 4 plants which would also sell alot quicker, or you can just buy an oz of fake opium for 10 bucks and sell it to people that, often times will never even see real opium so they will never much red rock was going around, and your gonna say that it isn't possible. Also, how come all the people I've seen selling opium didn't know shit about drugs in the first place. I don't give a shit were you live, the point of selling drugs is to make money, not to work your ass off for little return. Some might say, well they grow it in mexico, sorry but that doesn't make any sense either. You are sitting on a kilo of opium, which would be worth the same as a kg of good weed, probally around $3,000. There are soo many heroin labs it isn't even funny, that kg of opium can be turned into 400 grams of black tar heroin, which is worth around $20,000-$50,000 in the US. Which sounds better, $20,000 or $3,000? Then you gotta look at the drug market, heroin addicts are rampant, heroin sells itself in every major city in the US, noone ever says "damn I got all this heroin, but noone to sell it to". Opium on the other hand doesn't really have the same type of market. It is a novelty drug that most people do just to try something different that they don't consider "hard". They almost always smoke it with weed and they usually say "It enhances the high." You will never run into an opium addict in the US (that isn't asian). And addicts are were all the money is.
I can see people getting black tar heroin, cutting it with coffee or whatever shit they have in the house that looks like shit and selling it to people as opium to make money. This is what some people from the west might have smoked if they got fuxxored from "opium" but I can almost guarentee that it wasn't real, unless they grew it or had a friend that grew it. I have smoked "opium" 4 times and all times it was fake, but everyone else got high off of it (I am experienced with opiates, they tried painkillers a few times).