Being doped is a pleasure you pay for. There was always opium there for the people -- in the end it tainted their whole faith. If the Church had not always stood so watchfully behind the ruling powers, there would not have been such attacks against everything it stood for -- although of course it may have been competing with them for the first place among the rulers, as in the Middle Ages. Whenever it was a question of keeping the serfs, and then the paid slaves down, the dope-dealers came unfailingly to the help of the oppressors. .Ernst Bloch
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In the book, The Garden of Eden , by James Hogg, a story of a man named John MacKenzie describes how he experienced the power of opium. In his case, opium was a pain-killer and a way to relax him from the daily boring life he was living. It also made him a little bit crazy. He was always looking for something that would help him to feel better and then he found opium. He thought that it would only be a short time before opium would be used as a way of life and not as a way to help with pain and as such he preferred to stay as far away as possible from it.
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