Drugs Addiction.Opium.

Addiction. Opium.

Keep a grain of opium in mouth, cries of sex-partner will be heard a mile far.
Keep two grains of opium, cries of the sex-partner will be heard two miles far.
Keep three grains and cries of sex-partner will be heard three miles far and so on.

Opium is a sex-stimulant. The Moguls and Raj puts had sex-orgies in their courts.
Opium was freely distributed with competitions in sex-orgies. The sufferers
were tender good family girls and maidens who were brought in for experimentation.

They had trained staff in-charge of the entire poppy fields spread over miles unto miles, on the outskirts of Mountain Heights.

The workers in poppy fields had mastery in secreting sticky liquid from the fallen petal. It was collected in earthen bowls. It was allowed to sun-dry. The moisture would dry out and it would turn out the black gold, the opium lump.


Poppy plants were grown in the fields spread miles unto miles, extended to both side of the river, flowing from the hills, passing through woods. A castle at the top of the hill proved a shelter for the staff, and all, working in the fields in their region. There were hundreds of workers plucking the petal and incising them, as taught and trained by specialists.

They kept account of everything. They were used to move in the fields. From the hill, from the heights of the windows of the fort, they kept an eye on everything going on in the area. This is the story prior to the reforms when the princely states were lords and masters in their respective states. They had inherited the fields from their ancestors.

They used to grow poppy plants in the valleys behind the mountains extended to lush forest and meadows. From the sticky juice from poppy- petal came the substance with immense power to stimulate pleasure, cause numbness of the brain. Use of opium was moving among the princely states like plague.

The scene reflects life in India in the early part of the last century. The people were moderately advanced in the stages of life. The kingly states lost their kingdom in pursuit of horse races, bullfights, keeping harems and consuming opium. Since birth, the prince child was administered liquid opium.


By the time he turned an adult, he turned out a confirmed opium-eater, an addict. Taking opium was symbolic, a matter of pride. It was a status symbol to serve liquid opium in the courtroom to their office bearer and guests. It led them to their way to financial physical and mental ruin. This craze was crazy enough for the innocent victim’s friends and families of opium consumers, crime victims and those who unknowingly became involved in it. For ages nations have been consuming these items in different forms. It begins with a mild stimulant. Thereafter the journey of its intake progresses to more serious stages. Ultimately it gets transformed into a killer-drug.

There were an army of workers, contractors, transporters, landing agents, engaged in this job. Everything was done with the final permission from the Top. They would be moving in fields, supervising the workers. From the heights of the castle windows, they kept an eye on anything and everything. They were collecting opium from poppy petal twelve hours straight and they would not be tired. They were robot slaving from early morning till nightfall. They would come to the house to bathe, eat sleep and back to work, next morning. They used to return home late evening for their ritual bath food and sleep. This was their life. Their life was their work. They were addict-slaves.

The English Viceroy had his seat at Delhi. He had about fifty
Political agents under him in charge of states. Their duty was to
buy opium and ship steamer loads of opium to China Europe and America.

The Portuguese Viceroy had his seat at Goa. His agents at Goa, Diu, Daman etc were responsible to buy opium consignments and shipped them to China.



The opium poppy was native to what is now Turkey.
Ancient Assyrian herb lists and medical texts refer to both the opium poppy plant and opium, and in the 1st century AD, the Greek physician Dioscorides described opium in his treatise De Materia Medica, which was the leading Western text on pharmacology for centuries.

The growth of poppies for their opium content spread slowly eastward from Mesopotamia and Greece. Apparently opium was unknown in either India or China in ancient times, and knowledge of the opium poppy first reached China about the 7th century AD. At first, opium was taken in the form of pills or was added to beverages. The oral intake of raw opium as a medicine does not appear to have produced widespread addictions in ancient Asian societies.

Opium smoking began only after the early Europeans in North America discovered the Indian practice of smoking tobacco in pipes. Some smokers began to mix opium with tobacco in their pipes, and smoking gradually became the preferred method of taking opium. Opium smoking was introduced into China from Java in the 17th century and spread rapidly.


The Chinese authorities reacted by prohibiting the sale of opium, but these edicts were largely ignored. During the 18th century European traders found in China an expanding and profitable market for the drug, and the opium trade enabled them to acquire Chinese goods such as silk and tea without having to spend precious gold and silver.

Opium addiction became widespread in China, and the Chinese government's attempts to prohibit the import of opium from British-ruled India brought it into direct conflict with the British government.

As a result of their defeat in the Opium Wars, the Chinese were compelled to legalize the importation of opium in 1858. Opium addiction remained a problem in Chinese society until the Communists came to power in 1949 and eradicated the practice.

In the West, opium came into wide use as a painkiller in the 18th century, and opium, laudanum, and paregoric were active ingredients in many patent medicines. These drugs were freely available without legal or medical restrictions, but the many cases of addiction they caused did not arouse undue social concern. Morphine was first isolated from opium about 1804, and the hypodermic syringe was invented at mid-century. Their use in combination on hundreds of thousands of sick or wounded American soldiers in the Civil War produced unprecedented numbers of addicts.


Heroin, which was first synthesized in 1898, proved even more addictive than morphine, and by the early decades of the 20th century the legal use of opiates of any kind had been curtailed. The traffic in such drugs then went underground, leading to a vast illicit trade in heroin by the late 20th century.

In the meantime, the smoking of opium had greatly declined in the 20th century, partly because opium had been supplanted by more potent derivatives, and partly because of determined legal efforts in China and other developing nations to eradicate it.

Though opium smoking has declined, opium remains the starting product for heroin, which has millions of addicts worldwide. The cultivation of opium, which was formerly centred in India, Turkey, and China and was sometimes carried on legally, shifted to other countries and became wholly illicit in the second half of the 20th century.


By the century's end, the nations of Myanmar (Burma), Afghanistan, Laos, Iran, and Pakistan had become the leading producers and exporters of opium.

The war in Afghanistan is about opium.