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Ashiro t1_j2dmh4y wrote

Smoked heroin isn't odourless. It smells like...'flowers'. Specifically poppies.

I didn't think it smelled either until I quit a few years back and someone walked into the pharmacy. BOOF - the smell coming off them was intense. I looked around expecting people to notice but no one did.

If you've done heroin you'd recognise the smell.

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Gargomon251 t1_j2e6j28 wrote

I thought heroin was injected not smoked

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Ashiro t1_j2e73w9 wrote

It can be smoked off foil. When its done off foil it's called "chasing the dragon".

You use a straw to inhale the vapour/smoke trail as the heroin dissolves into a liquid.

Although when you inject you have to cook the heroin in a spoon with lemon juice so it may still give off a smell.

Apparently US heroin is laced with fentanyl so the smell may not be as common in the US. In the UK it's all pure Afghan, Turkish or Pakistani heroin.

Wooowee saying that just caused my first craving for heroin in years. Nope!

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Gargomon251 t1_j2e79cc wrote

I thought chasing the dragon was just a metaphor for getting high. I didn't know it was a specific thing.

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