So, we know there's smoking in Golarion, and we know there's booze so the dwarves and halflings don't kill themselves.
But, where's the good stuff? What are the uppers, the downers, the hallucinogens, the stuff that ravages communities? Where do the various drugs come from? Are there any notable drug lords or pushers? Are they illegal? What's going on?
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There's an entire chapter in the GameMaster's Guide entitled "Drugs and Addiction". And playing Pathfinder Society, I've seen this stuff come up specifically in a couple of adventures.
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Also, there are "fantasy" drugs like flayleaf and pesh and shiver in Pathifnder, as well as drugs like opium. They're talked about here and there in the Inner Sea World Guide, particularly on page 255 (where we talk a bit about flora) and in the entry for Katapesh, which is an entire nation founded, sort of, on the drug trade–pesh, in this case. They even have a pesh plant on their flag!
There's more drug stuff in Lords of Chaos (Book of the Damned 2), and drug abuse/addiction plays a pretty key role in one of the storylines in the 2nd Wrath of the Righteous adventure path. Drug use/addiction has also shown up in several of our Pathfinder Tales.
What Fromper said.
Flayleaf is pretty much the in-world analogue to marijuana, and pesh is the analogue to heroin. (Opium has its own entry-- it would appear that both exist alongide each other.)
The legality of drugs varies wildly from region to region. In my Varisia-based campaign, use of flayleaf is generally frowned upon by society, but isn't actually illegal. Pesh, however, is an illegal drug. (I ran a subplot in my game about the Sczarni using the smuggling tunnels below Sandpoint to run a pesh distribution ring.)
Flayleaf plays a minor role in the adventure "Feast of Ravenmoor" (it's one of the few crops that do well in that area). I've seen other drugs come up here and there in other adventures.
[EDIT: Ninja'd by the Creative T-Rex himself!)
Hmmm - where are tobacco's addiction stats listed, then? I assume that Golarion's version of tobacco still has nicotine, etc.?
You are freaking out...man .
Hm. Pesh as heroin. Suppose that works. I always equated it directly with opium, considering the location, the way it's used, et cetera. Though, with opium having it's own entry...
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Also, there are "fantasy" drugs like flayleaf and pesh and shiver in Pathifnder, as well as drugs like opium. They're talked about here and there in the Inner Sea World Guide, particularly on page 255 (where we talk a bit about flora) and in the entry for Katapesh, which is an entire nation founded, sort of, on the drug trade–pesh, in this case. They even have a pesh plant on their flag!
I am a huge fan of Katapesh, and I love the whole treatment of pesh in the setting, but I am not a huge fan of the flag.
In my own game, we've been using the two-headed Roc (Rhuk is it?) emblem from the map of Katapesh as the city's official flag.
It definitely looks cooler than a plant when hanging from an aluum.