Those countries had succeeded in cracking down on their own opium production—and drug smugglers began to ... "We have two forms of money here: poppy, and American dollars," says a beardless ...

Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form through TimesMachine. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 27. -- The largest seizure of opium ever made at the Port of San Francisco ...

some of them partners in the drug trade. In recent decades, after the region’s opium production had dropped, methamphetamine in the form of tablets and crystal meth supplanted it. It’s easier ...

The result was the “First Opium War,” in which Britain won ... with this narrative might also view fostering drug addiction ...

We are in receipt of inquiries in regard to the cultivation of poppies, and the manufacture of opium ; it having been ... been made to produce this costly drug in America, is justly consideredrfis ...

As an addictive narcotic drug, opium does many things to the consumer. Like other cases of drug abuse, the consumer is elated to some form of apparent ecstasy. It lifts the person to an imaginary ...

some of them partners in the drug trade. In recent decades, after the region’s opium production had dropped, methamphetamine in the form of tablets and crystal meth supplanted it. It’s ...