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    Laudanum (redirect from Opium tincture)
    Laudanum is a tincture of opium containing approximately 10% powdered opium by weight (the equivalent of 1% morphine). Laudanum is prepared by dissolving...
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    The First Opium War (Chinese: 第一次鴉片戰爭; pinyin: Dìyīcì yāpiàn zhànzhēng), also known as the Anglo-Chinese War, was a series of military engagements fought...
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    The Opium Wars (simplified Chinese: 鸦片战争; traditional Chinese: 鴉片戰爭; pinyin: Yāpiàn zhànzhēng) were two conflicts waged between China and Western powers...
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    opium trade. Today, the Thai side of the river confluence, Sop Ruak, has become a tourist attraction, with the House of Opium Museum, a Hall of Opium...
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    The Second Opium War (simplified Chinese: 第二次鸦片战争; traditional Chinese: 第二次鴉片戰爭), also known as the Second Anglo-Chinese War, the Second China War, the...
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    The 1948 Palestine war was fought in the territory of what had been, at the start of the war, British-ruled Mandatory Palestine. During the war, the British...
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    Opium in Iran is widely available, and the country has been estimated to have the highest per capita number of opioid addicts in the world at a rate of...
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    world's largest producer of opium, producing some 25% of the world's opium, and forms part of the Golden Triangle. The opium industry was a monopoly during...
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    Smoking (redirect from Smoking Opium)
    via smoking include tetrahydrocannabinol (from cannabis), morphine (from opium) and cocaine (from crack). Smoking is one of the most common forms of recreational...
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    Kenji Doihara (category 1948 deaths)
    importation of opium and other narcotics and by promoting the sale and consumption of such drugs among such people." He was hanged on 23 December 1948 at Sugamo...
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  • also known as Yang Kyin Hsiu, nicknamed Miss Hairy Legs) was a prominent opium warlord and the sister of Sao Edward Yang Kyein Tsai, the saopha (chief)...
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  • Stories (1996). She published releasing her first and only novel Opium Dreams in 1997. Opium Dreams was a winner of the Books in Canada First Novel Award...
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    dubbed the "Opium King" in Myanmar due to his massive opium smuggling operations in the Golden Triangle, where he was the dominant opium warlord from...
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    opponent of the opium trade, writing two books to promote the banning of opium smoking: The Truth about Opium Smoking and The Chinese Opium Smoker. In 1888...
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    British sought to curb opium addiction in Singapore and this led to the establishment of St John's Opium Treatment Centre. Opium was prevalent in Singapore...
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    medicinal properties, opium smoking became widespread in China and the West during the 19th century. These led to the establishment of opium dens. In the latter...
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    cotton, silk, indigo dye, sugar, salt, spices, saltpetre, tea, and later, opium. The company also initiated the beginnings of the British Empire in South...
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  • that unknown persons were smoking opium in a Seattle hotel. The agents visited the hotel, where they smelled burning opium coming from a room. Without obtaining...
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    during a strenuous opium weaning. In Opium: Journal of drug rehabilitation [fr], he recounts the experience of his recovery from opium addiction in 1929...
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    of humiliation was a period in Chinese history beginning with the First Opium War (1839–1842), and ending in 1945 with China (then the Republic of China)...
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  • The Opium Smugglers is a 1948 book by Ion Idriess. It was one of a number of books he wrote for children. "For The Young". The Argus (Melbourne). No. 31...
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  • ISBN 978-981-230-479-7. Lintner, Bertil (1994). Burma in Revolt : Opium and Insurgency since 1948. Boulder: Westview Press. pp. 41–47. ISBN 9780813323442. Smith...
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    country, who tend to come from higher socio-economic strata. The Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs Ordinance of 1935 criminalised cannabis. An amendment...
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  • its power will come in the world. After the British victory in the First Opium War in 1842, the resulting Treaty of Nanking opened Shanghai and four other...
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  • discovered that the alkaloids in opium are far more soluble in alcohol than water. Having experimented with various opium concoctions, Paracelsus came across...
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    Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Shan State is the region that produces the most opium in Myanmar, though production has declined in recent years. Muang Tai (Shan:...
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    Zau Seng, Zau Tu and Pungshi Zau Seng misused funds from the trade in opium and jade. Zau Seng's power disappeared when he was out of direct contact...
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    small amount of opium during the earlier years of the colonial period, but by the 1930s, Korea became a major exporter of both opium and narcotics, becoming...
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  • Casualties (1864-1872) NZETC". nzetc.victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 2015-11-04. First Opium War - page from The Armed Forces Memorial Project - page from Sovereignty...
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    "plant of joy", believed by some authors to refer to opium. The term gil is still used for opium in certain parts of the world. The Sumerian goddess Nidaba...
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