The book "Hard Drugs, a Reality of Pain!" is a beacon of light. A historical, poetic and prose approach to drug awareness and prevention. This work is innovative, transparent, and fact-based. The spiritual opening and introduction to opium, and its connections to 900 + years of substance use, abuse, drug trafficking, drug crimes and bloody drug wars, to the history of cannabis, hemp, and to the exploitation and positive benefits of the coca and opium plants takes the reader on a realistic journey. The author's experience, observations, and research are the design of 273 pages of enjoyable reading. 43 pages of resounding, entertaining, long, and short prose and poetry conveying a powerful language that is far-reaching. 15 pages of organized web links, videos. Credible information the "Questioner" can count on for years to come. 11 pages of cannabis, coca, and opium facts, and a 5 page "Shout-Out."