opium

The production of cocaine and opium is probably about the same as it was a decade ago; that of cannabis is higher.

To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.

China's long-term closed door was opened by the opium war and this indicated the beginning of a sera of territory invasion of imperialism .

China was a society that was suited for the uses of opium and for the most part did not demonstrate widespread abuse of the drug.

Someone urged her to take a few dregs of opium, but she refused for fear of addiction.

Marx, he said, did not mean to imply that religion was a bad thing when he referred to it as the opium of the people.

This is often taken to be the starting point of a position that ends with the slogan that "religion is the opium of the people" .

His followers did not rape or carouse, like the troops of many warlord armies, and he did not let them smoke opium.

his pain, he began to take opium, which further destroyed his health, and he died at the AGE of 56.

It's like we're back in Victorian England trying to keep the opium trade doors open agaist China's will again.

Opium grown locally in Badakhshan was processed into heroin in labs in the area, then transported across the border to Tajikistan, he said.

Pulling up a farmer's opium crop could generate ill will, perhaps enough to produce a new recruit for the insurgency.

After the Opium War, the British imperialists stole it from the corrupt Qing government and made it a colony of Britain.

The official Communist source does not tell us exactly how opium, as an aphrodisiac or as part of a formula, was used in the Ming court.

Macao, which had been leased to the Portuguese from 1557 till the eve of the Opium Wars, has turned into a leading international trade city.

I agree totally with Karl Marx on this point, that religion has been the opium of the poor.

The wreaths of smoke curled up in such fanciful whorls from his opium tainted cigarette.

"Students would stand up and say 'It was our fault. We were high on opium. We were weak and backwards, " ' she said.

Globally, illegal opium is often converted into heroin, which is significantly stronger, less bulky, and therefore easier to smuggle.

To save their silver, the British began to pay for these luxuries with opium from India, and many Chinese were soon addicted.

Cheap enough, these opium joints, but I'm short just a few sous.

"I, myself, " Jung told me modestly, "brought half a million dollars with me that had accumulated in my prefect from the sale of opium. "

He said Washington and Tehran share strategic interests in combating Afghanistan's spiraling opium trade and the resurgence of the Taliban.

The British government, urged by the interest groups connected with the opium trade, decided to wage war on China.

She was an opium addict who had numerous affairs and gambled away a lot of her family fortune.

any person who cultivates any plant of the genus cannabis or opium poppy , shall be liable upon conviction to a fine of hk 100 , 000 and.

Since the Opium War, western missionaries had entered China via the train of colonialism, and engaged in spiritual colonization.

Those that occur naturally in the opium poppy, notably morphine, have been used since ancient Greek times.

"When I need it, it is a kind of an attack, " she said afterward. "I can't resist the opium; it is stronger than I am. "

However, since the start of the U. S. led invasion, the poppy fields are growing again and the opium trade is flourishing as never before.

Stupefied by opium, cowed by Western firepower, China was dismissed at the outset of the 20th century as the "sick man of Asia. "

U. S. analysts said the estimated $4 billion in illicit opium accounted for more than a third of Afghanistan's gross domestic product.

The British forces had been aggressing and harassing Dalian during the two opium wars.

More importantly, she explains how China has turned the Opium Wars into a founding myth of its struggle for modernity.

One thing I found was that trading opium in the 19th century doesn't sound quite as bad as it sounds in the contemporary perspective.

The opium in the ceramic bulb at the end of the pipe will vaporize when a hot coal is applied to it.

It is all here: opium and exploitation, bravery, brutality and sacrifice.

The British press (opium traders masquerading as journalists) has carried out a systematic campaign to discredit China.

After the Second Opium War , Yingkou was opened up as a commercial port , and the door of the Northeast was opened under foreign big powers.

It has become one of the most treacherous parts of Afghanistan, producing more than half of the world's opium poppies.

He operated an opium alkaloid factory in Turkey and he was a leader in the Italian underworld on the Lower East Side of New York.

I am glad to have drunk water so long, for the same reason that I prefer the natural sky to an opium-eater's heaven.

Depending on the era that you were here, it had prostitution, certainly saloons, and at one time, even opium.

In the beginning it was a foreign dream, a Western treaty port trading opium for tea and silk.

I wanted to try to tell the Opium War from both perspectives, using both English-language sources and Chinese sources.

Mr. Baruch stated what he thought the best method of suppressing opium smoking and the people heartily entered into his views.

They farm opium and get a few hundred dollars, while across the river, fortunes are made.

Endorphin: Any of a group of proteins occurring in the brain and having pain-relieving properties typical of opium and related opiates.

The United States consumes only about 5 percent of the world's illegal opium, and most of that comes from Colombia and Mexico.

In later times, opium was sometimes administered either as an act of mercy or as a way of preventing fainting.

Along the way I made out a patch of opium poppies waiting to be harvested.

The UNODC says at least one million Afghan families are affected by addiction to opium-related drugs, and the number is growing.

Before the Americans arrived, opium smoking was a cultural norm in the region and was prevalent throughout the Hmong highlands.

After a couple of years, we heard that she had developed consumption, and had also become addicted to opium.

It has been hard fighting in this bit of southern Afghanistan's opium belt.

You begin all day as sucking the opium and it is companion, helpless self- ruin to be desperate.

Opium and cannabis are the only "natural" (agricultural) psychoactive drugs.

And he warns that farmers are not the only ones becoming dependent on opium.

Mr Zhou says his Chinese clients are fascinated that such a titchy island once ran such a large empire and dared start the Opium wars.

Ned also believes that the stranger secretly put some opium into his curry to make him sleep. These, Watson, are the main facts.

After the Opium War, modern finance came into being and worked up in China.

The UN Office on Drugs and Crime report says that Afghanistan is now a major consumer of opium and its derivatives.

Percy sighed heavily. Roderick had wasted all their money on opium and he could barely find enough to eat.

Refining the opium in-country makes smuggling it out much easier.

Most of the opium is pressed into bricks and sent to refineries to be made into heroin, which is then smuggled out of Afghanistan.

The exhibit discusses the Opium Wars that took place in the middle of the 19th century.

I knew I wouldn't be the first to pillage this town, but, unlike the British East India Company, I wasn't planning to pay with opium.

In this world, the most outstanding man is not the one who throw the opium into the latrine, but the one who send the opium to the pharmacy.

Mr Vang's guerrilla army, backed and financed by the CIA and opium sales, was a vital cog in the American war machine.

In 1840after Opium War, as a result of the imperialism invasion, gradually degenerates into the semicolonial and semifeudal society.

Opium has been recognised as a narcotic for at least two thousand years.

Yes China was always targeted by the Europeans for expansion. The Opium Wars are a perfect example.

It was opened by Victor Sassoon, a real estate tycoon whose family came to Shanghai on the wave of the opium trade.

After Opium War, Xiamen was to be the one part of five ports and to be the trade center in Fujian province.

Disclaimer: Don't worry Mom and Dad, I've never met anyone who calls herself Candy, I still have my passport, and I've never smoked opium.

Since some medicines had been abused and then became drugs like opium, cocaine etc. , human has been fighting a hard war against the DRC.

Chairman Mao also blamed Western aggression at the time of the Opium Wars for China's decline.

Before westerners brought their guns and opium to east Asia, the idea of a nation state was not well established.

It is a common opinion that after the opium war, China began to fall into the semi-colony society.

As with opium, transgressions are committed due to mutual collusion in illegal activity, and blame should be equally placed on both sides.

Cultivation of opium poppies declined in parts of the country with more government security, the report said.

It is a great enterprise to realize the national industrialization which Chinese people have longed for over 100 years since the Opium War.

I always feel that ideals are a sort of another opium of the people, I mean to convince people to do stuff.

Afghanistan's annual opium crop generates about $3 billion a year.

After the Opium War, China becomes semi-colonial and semi-feudal society step by step, facing the subject of the revival of nationhood .

The magistrate was an opium smoker and let Li do all the work.

An American-funded effort to plough up opium poppies, the main cash crop in much of the Pushtun south, has been wasteful and self-defeating.

Tea and Opium is an important book of global history, a Chinese response to the global history research as espoused by historians worldwide.

Wu xiang demonstrated how the Ming court either perceived or how it was introduced to foreign opium.

Cocaine, amphetamines, opium, morphine and others are in Schedule II and can be prescribed by doctors under DEA supervision.

The United States has accused the Taleban authorities in Afghanistan of full complicity in opium production.

Caption : The Process: After opium sap is collected from poppy bulbs, the wet, sticky gum is left to dry in the sun.

The exhibit discusses the Opium Warsthethat took place in the middle of19the19th century.

Afghanistan, the world's largest producer of opium, is drowning in a sea of its own making.

The failure of the Opium War, completely exposed to the Manchu dynasty, represented by the decay of the feudal Chinese empire.

Practically all of the crime I encountered in New York was a preying of the opium-eaters on the working community.

But solemn and stirring "Opium War" , then salutes to that phase of history's pathos, to historical spirit high admiring greatly.

Dry opium, by contrast, can be stored almost indefinitely and often acts as a family's store of wealth.

A topic of choice is the Opium Wars, those 19th-century skirmishes on the far-eastern fringe of the British empire.

But he claimed to be fighting a war to liberate them from the Burmese, and told the world they grew opium only to pay for clothes and rice.

But boundless vast ocean sky wild winds and huge waves and the opium woman all have no way to make his soul get a tranquility.

Morphine: Heterocyclic compound, narcotic analgesic alkaloid originally isolated from opium.

As poppy production in Afghanistan is still high, opium and heroin are cheap and easily available.

China paid staggering twenty one million tael of silver as war reparation when the British defeated China in the First Opium War.

The crop is opium, farmers have been busy harvest their opium poppies. Farmer Faiz Mohammed in Helmand province makes no apologies.

But, if so, that goes against Simpson, I suppose that the police think Simpson used the opium to make the stable boy fall asleep.

Maybe love is an opium, as it always has to think the feeling to fly.

an alkaloid extracted from opium; a powerful, habit-forming narcotic used to relieve pain.

We do not allow slash and burn [agriculture] and growing opium anymore.

Eating poppy-seed bagels does not equate to using opium, neither does eating grapes equate to drinking alcoholic wine.

That question is far from that thoughts of opium farmers, who say they have no other way to feed their families.

Before the opium war China is still an independent state of feudal society.

Agriculture -- excluding opium production -- represents about one-third of the Afghan economy.

These drugs include atropine, belladonna, cascara, castor oil, cocaine, curare , ephedrine, morphine, opium, and senna.

From the raw opium poppy with a round block, or brick-shaped pie for sale, later to crush or further processing.

Indeed, some missionaries went so far as to participate in opium trade, loot land property and perpetrate serious misconduct.

The French, for their part, encouraged opium cultivation in their Indochinese colonies, making opium a state monopoly.

Evidence shows that villages that have received assistance are less likely to grow opium.

However, although an opium revival may be inevitable, it may not automatically lead to a big increase in heroin trafficking.

The IMU has long been suspected of profiting from the smuggling routes for Afghan opium that pass through the Central Asian republics.

Not only would Obama send more troops, but he would send agricultural experts to give Afghan farmers an alternative to opium.

Afghanistan is still the world's biggest source of the opium poppy, despite the presence of foreign troops.

Who in this world has ever been able to eliminate the abuse of opium and heroin?

Poverty, warlordism and rebels have made Helmand the great opium den of the world.

However, due to the lack of continuity of policy, Noahwest China was still not fundamentally eliminate opium cultivation.

After the Opium War, the Chinese began to recognize modern western agricultural machines.

This proves that he was an addict who often ate opium.

The development of the East India Company by the British meant that large quantities of opium being produced in Bengal now needed a market.

Opium is not socially acceptable in most parts of the country, but in some areas it is associated with local culture.

Didn't the West steal Chinese treasuries from the time of the Opium War to the start of Communism?

Since the Opium War in 1840, China is experiencing the magnificent society transformation.

The UN says the highly addictive stimulants have supplanted heroin, opium and marijuana, and pose a serious challenge to law enforcement.

After the Opium War, the Qing Xianfeng eleven years (1861) later became the British, the French Concession.

Whether the fatuity of the Chinese emperor and his ministers in Qing dynasty is the secondary cause of the failure in the Opium War ?

Later that evening Dr Candy had put some opium into Franklin's drink to prove to him that it would help.

Ultimately, though, halting Afghan opium production means reducing demand in Europe and other drug-consuming states.

After the Opium War, the form of government and economic pattern of China has changed greatly.

As we all know, from the Opium War in 1840, the old China into a semi-feudal, semi-colonial society.

It damage your mucous membrane of your nose and stay away from opium too.

The Drug Enforcement Administration estimated that opium provided the Taliban with 70% of its revenue.

Since Opium War, what for the love of country, it means for Communist Party and Chinese people solidarity and dedication.

In prohibiting gaming, gambling and opium-smoking, and in eliminating banditry, the peasant associations have won general approval.

With almost 100 pages of maps, notes, timelines and footnotes, "The Opium War" moves along with a quick pace and simple language.

There was, however, one growth opportunity for the West: opium from India.

Police found Jones hiding in an opium den, among other men, all hopped up with the drug.

An alkaloid narcotic, C18H21NO3, derived from opium or morphine and used as a cough suppressant, analgesic, and hypnotic.

In the popular image they were criminals, gamblers, prostitutes, and opium smokers.

Theyhave met with stronger resistance than initially expected against Taliban fighters bankrolled by the vast opium and heroin trade.

Heroin is an opiate processed directly from the extracts of the opium poppy.

UNODC's office in Bangkok last month released the results of its 2008 opium survey, conceding an alarming resurgence in the region.

However, HSBC also financed the illegal opium trade and inevitably got involved in the problems of sovereignty and interests.

illegally transporting, buying, selling, storing or using a small quantity of opium poppy shells.

Lettuce contains a sleep-inducing substance called lactucarium, which affects the brain similarly to opium.

After the Opium War, coincidental with the influx of bourgeois democratic ideas, anti-foot-binding ideas arose in modern China.

Afghanistan produces about 90% of the world's supply of the poppies that are used to make heroin and opium.

With few obvious sources of legitimate wealth, other possibilities are foreign spending and opium poppies.

After the Opium War (1840-1842), western culture began to enter China in a large amount.

Strict laws and alternate agricultural opportunities for farmers have helped bring an end to most of Thailand's opium production.

The story about opium trading was full of greed, opportunism and hypocrisy.

Various data shows that the relationship between the guerrillas and the Ma Gang and opium was very complex.

Mohammad, who lost his leg in a blast in Kabul and his $1, 000 dollar opium crop to these police, still has six children to feed.

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It was the custom there to offer opium to guests.

By protection of unfair treaties , the missionaries were surged into China to engage in missionary work after Opium War.

In order to offset this trade imbalance, the British East India Company, a private business , smuggled Indian opium into China.

Addiction in Afghanistan is rising along with the country's opium production, which is cranking at something close to fever pitch.

At the end of the Opium Wars in 1860, British and French troops looted the palace buildings and burned them down.

Raw opium is refined to generate morphine, morphine and then by chemical substances that generate heroin refining.

The Golden Triangle covered more than 370, 000 square miles and was home to several hill tribes whose members cultivated the opium.

Grain prices rose and opium farmers protested against the campaign to eradicate the drug.

China started the industrialization and urbanization process since the Opium War, and mass culture emerged at the same time.

In Afghanistan, farmers begin harvesting this year's opium crop, defying a US-sponsored crackdown on the world's largest narcotics industry.

A masterful escape artist, Tubman will do anything to avoid capture, even keeping babies quiet with opium.

In the same village, I came across an opium smoker who hired a man to work his two acres of land for him.

Founder of the Nepalese Rana family, Prime Minister Jang Bahadur export the opium to China by road.

Later exchanges of tea, spices and then opium served to enrich Western merchants, particularly from Britain.

The Opium War is far more than history: It has a powerful message for present day.

The flags shown on this ship model are small replicas of the dragon flag that was taken from a junk during the opium war 1839 - 1842.

However, after i had read The Opium War, i felt like reading more about China, so i borrowed Waley's translation of Chinese poetry.

It macerates its opium and percolates its own laudanum and paregoric.

these economic and social led to the Opium War and China's defeat , commencing a long period of foreign influence and domination.

The committee report also expresses concern about the slow progress in curbing opium poppy production in Afghanistan.

Second, China suffered from aggression and oppression by imperialist powers in its modern history after the Opium War in 1840.

After the Second Opium War, China was drawn into the capitalist world system centered in western powers by a series of unequal treaties.

It missed the industrial revolution, turned in upon itself and fell prey to warlordism and opium addiction.

But as for those who again violate the opium prohibition, it is difficult for the law to pardon them repeatedly.

Beautiful, flirtatious, despite the despair, can it still exudes the fragrance of opium poppy.

They really do use profits from the opium trade to finance terrorist attacks on civilian and military targets.

Our policies have given the insurgency the ability to tax virtually the entire world supply of illicit opium.

Five years ago the province was Afghanistan's second-biggest opium producer, after the Taliban-controlled province of Helmand.

Britain smuggled large quantities of opium into China, making the Qing government impose a ban on the drug.

In the museum I learned why so many regard Khun Sa as a freedom fighter rather than an opium warlord.

"Barbarians technology" as early as the first Opium War, Lin Tse-hsu, Wei Yuan put forward come.

In a country as poor as Afghanistan, opium rots any institution it touches.

Hit by two Opium Wars and the Taiping Heavenly Movement, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty felt the deeping crisis .

Amidst much bravado about the potential for world revolution, Marx praised the Opium War for throwing China into chaos.

They inveighed against slavery, concubinage , foot binding, arranged marriage, cruel punishments, and the use of opium.

Lin Zexu defended national dignity by confiscating and burning opium imported into China by English and American businessmen.

Medicinal Plants - Opium Poppy, Peruvian Bark, Scammony, Nux Vomica.

Opium, morphine, heroin, marihuana and other addictive drugs and psychotropic substance.

Opium from poppy plants commands a far higher price than a cereal like wheat on the international markets.

Because of the money spent on opium and hired labor, he had barely enough food for himself.

It is understood that opioid refers to extract from the poppy plant's active ingredients, mainly opium, morphine and heroin.

Sue girlfriend wear YiDe found baylor and colluding with the foreigner opium business, was baylor assassination.

Fixated by terrorism, the Bush administration ignored the risks of rising opium output.

Researchers use satellite photos and ground surveys to measure cocaine and opium crops.

But the Opium Wars are always there, lurking in the Chinese subconscious, perpetuating the tension between pride and victimhood.

Since it is derived from opium, it is a controlled drug: governments have to report its usage.

Qing Dynasty Opium War decline, the country mourning the right of the Treaty of Nanking.

The opening of ports after the Opium War gave the Cantonese businessmen a larger space to develop their business.

America also wants to disrupt the drug trade: most of the country's opium poppies are grown in the region.

Yet this is just the tip of the iceberg of the puzzle; it does not reveal the way in which opium was consumed.

Occasional consumption of opium would not have such effects.

fifth, Marx's famous maxim- "religion is people's opium" contain apparent Judaic feeling.

However, most of them came bearing crates of opium, with guns blazing and no invitation.

Once dry, theresin is scraped off with a metal tool and formed into raw opium bricks.

WwW. zIdiR. coM China gradually degraded to a semi-colony, semi-feudal society after the Opium War.

Opium War broke the communication's barrier between China and western countries.

Emma Goldman: I think voting is the opium of the masses in this country. Every four years you deaden the pain.

They ran the infamous Green Gang in Shanghai, which, among other activities, sold opium.

It doesn't help that Karzai's brother is widely reputed to be involved in the opium trade.

Afghanistan has a virtual lock on world opium production: it is both the incumbent and by far the lowest-cost supplier.

Today, another war promoted by International Jewry is being waged in Afghanistan, the world's top supplier of opium.

The active ingredient for opium alkaloids, most notably morphine.

Relying on it, we investigated and grouped 100 patients with protracted abstinence symptom of opium-addicts.

After the Second Opium War, a large number of Western missionaries poured into Hubei and Hunan provinces.

In 1837, Lin Tse-hsu appointed viceroy during the Wuhan prohibited opium, smoking the first of its kind to open in China.

Johnson, Diane. "Rolex. " In Natural opium: Some Travelers' Tales. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1993.

In the classes, they were getting a full-throated nationalist view of the Opium War.

Beijing police used a helicopter Saturday for the 1st time to hunt for opium poppies being grown in the city's suburbs, Xinhua reported.

The opium den was a musty place that smelt of whiskey and smoke.

A hot coal is applied to the ceramic bulb containing the opium.

Only a strong-tasting meal such as curry can hide the taste of opium.

2010 was atypical; a poppy blight drove opium production down and prices up.

Prostitute system of NanNing collaborate with opium, wager and underworld .

A poppy bulb oozes opium paste in a field in Badakhshan Province.

Christianity came to China about four times: tang dynasty, yuan dynasty, ming dynasty, after the Opium War.

During his visit to Britain this week, Wen Jiabao, China's premier, was too polite to mention the opium wars directly.

Economic development, and curbing the government corruption that accompanies the opium-fuelled economy, are as important.

Afghanistan is still the world's biggest producer of illicit opium, far ahead of Myanmar's estimated 410 tonnes in 2008.

After the First Opium War in 1840, China was gradually reduced to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country.

Opium was used as a social drug, similar to how we use alcohol today.

Gave birth to two Opium Wars, a new foreign institutions - the establishment of Yamen.

Finally, we had extraterritoriality and used this legal advantage in order to be extremely active in the opium trade.

Morphine, derived from opium, is used in medicine as an analgesic, light anesthetic or a sedative.

Opium was labelled wu xiang or 'black fragrance' by the editors of Da Ming Huidian, as Yu Zhengxie, a Qing court historiographer, decoded.

By destroying this opium and the drug making facilities we are directly target their fighting capability.

As for the Opium Wars, a strictly legal perspective is ludicrous .

After the Opium War, the Qing government was forced to sign with the Western powers a series of unequal treaties.

After the Opium War of 1984, China was reduced to a semi-colonial and semifeudal country.