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...many times this week had he gone to see the dragon? Five? Six? Ten? Fitz had lost count. But he reckoned he went to the den almost every night and paid Ton, the scraggly opium dealer with a green-and-blue dragon tattooed on his thin upper arm, 50 per pipe to get him off. He lay there, watching the dragon coil and uncoil as Ton flexed his arms, working to heat the night-colored opium, mixing the paste with Mr. Headache powder and then rolling it between his palms into cylinders. He broke off pieces from the roll...
...When he first got to Vang Viang, in central Laos?about six hours by plodding diesel bus from Vientiane?it had taken four pipes for Fitz to get high. Seven, and he would begin to drift into his own subconscious, as though he were the director of his own pipe dreams. He had come via Thailand from Toronto, where he had been laid off from an Internet magazine. Now, after a month in town, it took a dozen pipes to get to that blissful nodding state, and if he didn't come down to see the dragon at least once...
...That's why when girls like Sophie or guys like Fitz hear that the drug is widely available in Laos, they can't resist the temptation to try out what has become almost legendary in the West: pure opium. The drug is grown mainly by the hill tribes who came south from Yunnan, China, in the last century and brought a taste for the black, inebriating tar with them. Tribes like the Aka and Hmong cultivate the crop in the otherwise arid highland climate, and bring it down to sell to Vietnamese dealers in the main towns. Ton pays about...
...Fitz, who is fresh from going to see the dragon, sits in the back of Dillon's restaurant, rolling a joint. There's a full-moon party in 10 days down in Ko Pha-Ngan, Thailand, three days by bus, train and boat from here. He swears he's going to be there. He needs a fresh visa for Laos anyway. What about the opium? Can he go that long without seeing the dragon...
...wish men could step back from their testosterone-steeped minds and see themselves as handicapped, not enabled, by this hormone." JULIE FITZ Auburn Hills, Mich...