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ON OPIUM & HEROIN: Now they want to outlaw opium smoking. But if they outlaw opium, everyone in Vientiane will turn to heroin. Opium is not bad, but heroin is made with acid, which kills a man. In Thailand Marshal Sarit outlawed opium [1958-1959] and now everybody takes heroin in Thailand. Very bad. -General Ouane (p. 382)

ON OPIUM & HEROIN: Now they want to outlaw opium smoking. But if they outlaw opium, everyone in Vientiane will turn to heroin. Opium is not bad, but heroin is made with acid, which kills a man. In Thailand Marshal Sarit outlawed opium [1958-1959] and now everybody takes heroin in Thailand. Very bad. -General Ouane (p. 382)

Mozart is such a lively writer. Spaethling does a wonderful job of stepping aside and letting the energy of Mozart shine through this tale in Letters.

Fascinating historical record of drug trafficking and how it all came about.

Chapter Two ... am just making up page numbers as there is no way to tell what page one is on without the physical book. Prior to reading this chapter ... had read a review where someone stated it was a racist book ... it's probably because of some of the wording in this chapter ... however you have to read this as if you are in the era it is being written where racism wasn't even a word yet ... it was just how thing

Chapter One ... can't put a page number because it's on the Kindle. Chapter one is great ... Sherwood has an amazing way of making white trash look desirable.

There are many things that come up in CONSCIOUSNESS SPEAKS by BALSEKAR that I had never heard in the way that he says it and it is sparking all kinds of wonderful moments of Stillness or Awareness of Stillness such as:

Only the individual has questions.

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I just finished Night Flying Woman (Native Voices) and gave it 4 stars.