Sent from: chris@musicpen.com (Chris Fahey) Opium tea is no fun. You see, opium is a anti-diarrheal agent - it halts peristalsis or something, meaning it makes your tubular gastronomic muscles stop working. As anyone who has done smack knows, this leads to an acute inability to (among other things) pee. To get fucked up on opium tea, you have to drink a whole lot. So basically, you end up with a bladder full of dirty yukky brown water and no way to get it out. And the high is just like really bad weak heroin, so you have to vomit too. Regarding this Hogshire fella, I don't care about the poppy, and his book should certainly not be evidence of his intent, but how can one only incidentally mention an "..obligatory firearms charge"?!? Did he have an illegal weapon? If so, fuck him, I hope he has fun trading recipies with his opium drinking gun freak friends...in jail!