In 1886, a federal judge in Oregon upheld a Chinese man's conviction under a state law banning the sale of opium for nonmedical use. "Smoking opium is not our vice," U.S. District Judge Matthew ...

Smoking opium had attracted unfavorable notice from temperance advocates, missionaries and moral reformers. Inflamed by anti-Chinese sentiment, ...

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That stopped my opium smoking, that “You cannot escape us now”; because, as I said, you get caught, and your feet are stuck in the glue, ...

It was in Javanese ports that Chinese sailors learned the habit of smoking tobacco dipped in Dutch-made liquid opium. They brought the practice back to Chinese port cities, where opium dens ...

As the novelist Amitav Ghosh demonstrates in his new work of nonfiction, “Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories,” the unassuming opium poppy is to blame for much of the devastation that ...

Open the door to Islam Beg's house and the thick opium smoke rushes out into the cold mountain air, like steam from a bathhouse. It's just past 8 a.m. and the family of six — including a 1-year ...

SARAB, Afghanistan -- Open the door to Islam Beg's house and the thick opium smoke rushes out into the cold mountain air, like steam from a bathhouse. It's just past 8 a.m. and the family of six ...

SMOKE AND ASHES: Opium’s Hidden Histories, by Amitav Ghosh. Biographies of humble things that their authors claimed had “changed the world” — chronometers, salt, ...