memecucker:

apparently of the people that own functioning opium antiques its only a “small minority” that have have never used the drug and have no interest in it with most being able and willing to make occasional trips (even lugging literal antique opium sets which can be written off as antiques i guess) to buy the drug from the right people even though at every step of the production someone had to forego the incredibly more profitable and practical decision of just turning the opium poppies into heroin so the entire micro-trade is dependent on people doing favors for friends and this is on top of the fact that the opium sets themselves are incredibly expensive, fragile, difficult to use and literally no one makes the parts anymore and like this has gotta be the weirdest drug community ive ever head of and i like how i found out about it not from Vice but an antique collector’s website