Brace.

Yes.

Okay.

I have a question.

Yes.

So how does a flower become a drug?

Well, with opium, with the opium poppy.

Yeah, yeah, poppies.

Of gods, you know, as a former florist, I'm very familiar with many of the good lord's

creations of flowers.

Despise almost all of it, except for the poppy.

You cut it open, you get the sap. I'm not too entirely familiar with exactly the step-by-step making of the dope. But I do know that it's the sap of the opium poppy. You cut it open, you process it somehow. And there's a bunch of different things you can do with it after that. You can make it into morphine. After that, you can refine it further into heroin. You can synthesize it, make fake opium, which that's what they call opiates, or opioids, rather. Wait, what's the difference between opiate and opioid? Opiate is from the earth. It's natural. It's okay to do. it's just like smoking cannabis. It cannot possibly harm you.

Opioids are, our opioids are created in labs, uh, in order to kill you. That sounds bad.

That's the big difference. You cavemen actually apparently used. Really?

Opium. Well, they had, they were buried wrong side of the flowers. And you know, it's, you know how like, when you get bare, you usually bring like a couple of your relatives along? Like, you know, you die and then you have a couple of them killed, bear alongside you. I don't think that's true. Because you love them. Well, that's what they did with, with the opium flower, with, with, with, with the poppy. But people have basically used opium or use the poppy

in various forms since like I think the earliest they found it was like 3,500 years ago for sure

but almost certainly before then and like again like I said it's buried alongside neanderthals

and everybody was using like crazy Greeks

definitely for sure absolutely they were total freaksoid yeah Homer talks about the drug called

the Pent in the Odyssey which makes you uh makes you sleepy and dreamy and forget everything

uh you know people the Sumerians like definitely used op. They called it whole gill, which means the joy plant. Stupid name. They also called it smack, which I thought. Really? No, no, I just made that up. Minowans used it. Alexander the Grey brought it to fucking India. Eventually, you know, back then people were kind of just pounding in their paste and, you know, putting that into, like, potions and shit. Like, you know, basically then people were kind of just pounding their paste and, you know,

putting that into like potions and shit.

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