Officials in Myanmar’s major cities destroyed about USD 300 million worth of confiscated illegal drugs on Thursday.The ...

Massive mountains of illegal drugs have been set alight in Myanmar as the country celebrates burning nearly $300million worth ...

Smoking opium relieves pain and worries and the user feels intoxicated and sexual pleasure. But the effect decreases with frequent use, so the amount used has to be increased.

Smoking opium wasn’t technically illegal at the time, so Curran and Neilson were charged with attempting to defraud the government out of tax revenue, according to the Bottineau Courant.

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In his Opium-Smoking in America and China (New York, 1882), Harry Hubbell Kane described an "opium den" in which stood "a pleasant-faced Chinaman who, with scales in hand, was weighing out some opium.

In the final pages of Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories, Amitav Ghosh volunteers a startling confession.Though he had spent many years working on the book and had “accumulated an ...

At Haw Par Villa, she went up to a sculpture sitting on a rock with a pipe and said: "I wanna know what this guy is smoking." "I think this guy is smoking opium," her cameraman said, laughing.

Here opium-smoking accommodations are furnished for forty persons. The only method of ventilation is through the door, and this is often closed and fastened.

HISTORY Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories Amitav Ghosh John Murray, $34.99. Amitav Ghosh (or perhaps his publishers) has given Smoke and Ashes two subtitles. In India, it came out in ...

Nonetheless, Smoke and Ashes does present an astringent indictment of the “drug-pushing racket” and the “colonial narco-state” associated with that trade. Along the way, Ghosh finds room to advise the ...