House of Opium

In the village of Ban Sop Ruak, on the outskirts of Chiang Saen in Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand, placed among other places that are very much of touristic interest, we were able to find this instructive museum. This is a "drug school" that tells us, since the time that it originated, which are the best positions and best pipes for consuming. Poppy seems that comes from the island of Crete, extending its cultivation to the northeast, came to Southeast Asia, where both party learned to take media christened "Golden Triangle" to a wide area that included Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam.