How to Smoke Opium in Tehran

[rug]

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

A rare visit to an Iranian opium den.


Above, an opium pipe is warmed on a brazier of coals in Shiraz, Iran. The pipe must be warned in order to vaporize the solid opium.

Despite aggressive antidrug policies, the Islamic Republic has a fairly large drug-using community, with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimating that the country has 1.2 million drug-dependent users, as writer Roland Brown reports in Foreign Policy. From crystal meth to crack, Iran's drug users have an ample supply, but Azad, Brown's guide to the Islamic Republic's opiate underground, says that opium is "Iran's oldest and most entrenched drug."

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/11/18/smoking_opium_in_tehran

You never know when this may come in handy.

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[Kali]

2. gotta wonder what that ^^^ was

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[OriginalGeek]

3. lol I HATE it when I see those

It drives me crazy wondering what somebody did....

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. gotta think that some dumbass said something dumb.

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