Authorities incinerate vast quantities of opium, heroin, methamphetamine, and other narcotics in major cities to mark ...

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

YANGON, Myanmar — Officials in Myanmar’s major cities destroyed about US$300 million worth of confiscated illegal drugs ...

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.

Japan, however, differed and thought that the elimination of opium smoking could be effected only by registration and rationing of all smokers. Then the question of opium import certificates was ...

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CAUGHT SMOKING OPIUM. Share full article. Aug. 28, 1886. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from August 28, 1886, Page 8 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine.

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 ...