Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.
Hempseed produces no observable high for humans or birds.
The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.
The Batoka of these parts are very degraded in their appearance, and are not likely to improve, either physically or mentally, while so much addicted to smoking the mutokwane ('Cannabis sativa'). They like its narcotic effects
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
Cocaine eyes won't hide your face.
Your kiss is bitter with cocaine.
He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts.
The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss the quality of the drug rather than its lethargic effects.
The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable.
That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.
