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[IMG]"There is always a need for intoxication: China has[/IMG]
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"There is always a need for intoxication: China has
opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman."
André Malraux
(1901-1976)
MAN'S FATE
if you read about opium and ludanum in britain at the turn of the century you'd be gobsmaked at the sheer numbers of people from all backgrounds who indulged.
the largest amount of opium use in the western world was empire building days. we were all getting high and going out thieving......stealing continents and peoples...WOW!
the whole of society almost, were taking some form of opium on a daily basis.
drug problem ? you'd think so but no. prime ministers and admirals were known to smoke together. babies were settled down for the night with it. no problem because it had been legal and acceptable for generations. generations who built the railwys and tunneled through mountains.
generations of stoners. yahoo!!!
John Brown
(1735 - 1788)
Elementis Medicinae [1780]
"One must not think life with the mind, but with opium"
André Malraux
(1901-1976)
MAN'S FATE
"Narcotics have been systematically scapegoated and demonized. The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is an anathema to these idiots. I predict that in the near future right-wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus."
William S. Burroughs
(1914 - 1997)
some of these pictures are very familiar to a lot of your modern experiences i'm sure. aren't they beutiful ?
Raymond Kendall
Secretary General of Interpol 1994
20 years or more without showing intellectual or moral
deterioration is a common experience of physicians"
Dr Lawrence Kolb,
US Assistant Surgeon General, 1925
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aside from physical sufffering, there is nothing real"
André Malraux
(1901-1976)
Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
please forgive me taking up a whole post. the drug story is a BIG story .i am just trying to convey the point that it's nothing new.
IT has and will be forever........with us. surely we must learn to live with it differently than the way we are.
"I am engulfed, and drown deliciously
Soft music like a perfume, and sweet light
Golden with audible colours exquisite,
Swathe me with cerements for eternity.
Times is no more. I pause and yet I flee.
A million ages wrap me round with night.
I drain a milion ages of delight.
I hold the future in my memory.
Also, I have this garret which I rent,
This bed of straw, and this that was a chair,
This worn-out body like a tattered tent,
This crust, of which the rats have eaten part,
This pipe of opium; rage, remorse, despair;
This soul at pawn and this delirious heart."
Arthur Symons
(1865-1945)
Thomas de Quincey
(1785 - 1859)
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
that just about sums up opium for me. thats the buzz. and if your wondering why the people are always laying down to smoke ,it's because you cant dream standing up. opium is about dreaming...fantastical dreams.
promise i'll leave it there for now.
LMAO...mindless !