AsraArdwulfLeberecht
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Ol argedco luciftias said:Henu the Great said:Well, not excactly. Opium to heroin is comparable to coca leaves to cocaine. I can see that your protective drive kicked in, but let's stay matter of fact.
Opium is black tar heroin. The latex from the middle of the opium poppy is boiled and collected as a black residue. This latex is what contains the heroin drug, and it is the same thing regardless of if you call it opium or heroin. So I don't know why you are saying that it is two different things, it is not.
I appreciate your efforts in clearing this up but your disagreement is nothing more but confusing. If we are NOT to use these plants, then why are they listed on the page with incenses corresponding to planets? This is what confuses me. There's no disclaimer. Then it's just informative? Because why would you place opium between sandalwood and jasmine if you actually mean to say it is dangerous? I do not, under any circumstance, intend to do drugs and harm my soul but I dont get it.
Then, what makes a ritual plant and what makes a drug (plant-based)?
I am asking if it's correct that inhaling is called doing drugs but burning cones is called incense for ritual because when you burn cones you inevitably inhale right? And beside the spiritual use you also burn cones for their smell - it's innate that you smell what you are burning. So, to me, burning cones automatically means inhaling, unlike you said, and I do not want to drug myself while trying to do a ritual , so please shine some light on this subject. I think I will just buy sandalwood and jasmine :lol:
One more reason why I disapprove to the theory that inhaling = drugs and burning cones = not drugs is because not everything that's burning is suit to be incense for a ritual, or even a mere air freshener, just because you don't stick your nose in it. For example, if a crackhead burned some THC, could that be called "incense"? Of course not.