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The pretence was, to prevent a scarcity of provisions; but the real reason, to give the chief an opportunity of selling at a better price a large quantity of opium which he happened then to have upon hand
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Upon other occasions, the order has been reversed ; and a rich field of rice or other grain has been ploughed up, in order to make room for a plantation of poppies, when the chief foresaw that extraordinary profit was likely to be made by opium
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plugged into some electronic version of life that beats the hell out of opium, so not going out a lot
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One occasionally wonders if morphine, cocaine, heroin, opium, hashish, laudanum, or whatever would help
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“Hey, give me a hand loading this, and I’ll buy you a bag of opium
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One of the lounges on the top floor of the house is given over to the taking of opium and other drugs, and I have heard much talk of a new drug that is becoming increasingly popular in certain circles
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He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon, used opium in college and drinks a quart of whiskey every evening
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RELIGION, THE OPIUM OF THE
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they protect the biggest single supplier of opium in the
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in the opium trade, and that meant protecting the producer
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that the tyrant produced most of the world’s opium
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“But it is to the opium
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even, that’s used to water just a part of the opium plants
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of great satisfaction with the pleasures only opium can
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opium poppy fields and convinced their farmers to grow wheat and other essential
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Don’t you think that’s a lot of coincidence? Suppose I had mentioned opium or whatever, I bet, she would suddenly have a kilo of that for sale as well
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The British had set up opium shops where opium grown by the government was sold
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Women started buying opium to give to children while they were at work
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This increased income for the government and created a generation people addicted to opium
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Poverty, starvation, malnourishment, disease, and addiction to alcohol and opium created hell on earth for Indians
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This agreement called for release of all political prisoners; restore confiscated property of farmers, repeal salt tax, and right of people to picket liquor, opium, and foreign cloth shops
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He took a long draw of opium smoke from his water pipe
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He took a piece of opium from a small wooden box and dropped it into the pipe
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He refilled the pipe several times with tobacco and pieces of opium
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Soon the opium would wear off and my headache would return
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Opium was merely a rest from the constant pain
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The United Kingdom, had in the days of the “First Opium War”, legalised the trade in opium, by British merchants, with the general population of China in the 1800’s – creating two million Chinese addicts at that time – today of course, the figures have increased
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Here they grew the opium and here they manufactured the drug that was the purest and finest in Colombia
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It was a mixture of sweat, candle wax, and a hint of opium incense, an oriental aroma
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viewed as an electronic opium den
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For musicians, heroin and opium were ways to compensate for all the grime and grit of the world in which they made a livelihood
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shop that specialized in a vast assortment of mirrors and opium
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prospering often opened opium dens in the back streets; these gave the
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Do you have a balm against pain made with opium grains: it was very popular in the Mekong Delta
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The 2ème Bureau made a windfall from the traffic of opium that came from Laos and Cambodia and that supplied the opium dens of Saigon
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One of those retired 2ème Bureau agents even controlled the traffic of the opium that was surplus to the needs of Saigon, surplus that was then rerouted to the opium addicts in Marseilles, while another retiree managed the finances of the leader of the Binh Xuyen, Le Van Vien, also known under the nickname of Bay Vien
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The bodies of those men are now in our morgue and we were able to seize their identity papers, as well as other compromising documents showing that the French secret services finance their clandestine operations in Indochina with the help of opium and arms trafficking, on top of getting part of the revenues from the casinos and bordellos of Saigon
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The brown paste in the bags is opium paste, the basic ingredient for the production of opium
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Those crates contain the equivalent of about 370,000 American dollars of opium in street value, once converted
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This opium paste comes from poppy plantations in Laos and is brought by air to Saigon with the assistance of the planes of the G
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The opium surplus that are not sold in Saigon then find their way to Marseilles, where they feed the habits of French drug addicts, with the profits filling the coffers of the S
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had no interest in smoking marijuana or opium, or similar activity
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happily with the aid of some fresh opium
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with his pack for a pil ow, puffing on his opium bong, his mind ambled lazily back
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Carl was doing one of his favourite things, he was lying in an opium den
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great deal more opium than anyone else in the room and was stil not completely
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no matter how vehemently and greedily he sucked on his opium pipe
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woman who carried an ornate wooden box in which the tools of the opium
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was good and the opium dens were second to none
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sexes, no standing on your head the bar, no smoking of cigarettes, cigars, grass or opium
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Every honey-dipped word exhaled like opium, the perfect blend of whispery shivers down your spine
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So is it not the time for them to go back to the Sufi roots of Indian Islam before the Shia-Sunni bad blood of Pakistan starts spilling over the Pakistani borders into their separatist mohallas? But the moot point is can they make the desired course correction? Of course, not as long as they hold the double-edged religious sword of separateness nearer to their heart; but then, if religion is opium, there is no opium like Islam
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Opioids are a family of drugs, which include: Heroin, morphine and opium
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For an Afghani growing carrot is not the same money as growing opium
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Not that Hunter cared, the cold was numbing, and combined with the morphine, opium – whatever drug they managed to dredge up, it was a good haze
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Aaron tokes on the delicious opium smoke
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science proved that its ok for children to work for 11 hours in a factory, or that opium and
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Charles Darwin was an opium
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No “evolution theory”, no “survival of the fittest” without opium
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wanted to sell opium there
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I never knew about Coleridge's opium, or that to Carlyle he appeared as a helpless Psyche over spun with Church of England cobwebs, as a weak, diffusive, weltering, ineffectual man
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“Evil stuff that is – opium” added Best
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I don't know what was in them, but I fancy there must be just a trace of opium
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Such conditions have existed with the opium products a long time
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There were opium lay-outs with pipes, lamps, yen haucks, and other paraphernalia in some
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But we had no use for their trade so they brought us opium instead
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The corruption of opium has been replaced by the corruption of pompous power, of unequal authority, of overbearing arrogance
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As I told you before, the seeds were planted in China by the British who caused ruin and humiliation with their cargoes of opium and their belittling domination of my people
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Bring the opium back here by the end of the month, and you
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Raw sewage, disease, opium, and
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Tull was a shady character in the business of importing opium,
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would be referring to the opium trader,” he said
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“Toasting the opium properly is no less important than choosing
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The two sat silently for a long moment, Henri allowing the opium tar to mix with his own saliva, cutting in short time the pain that was his daily disposition
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mowing down the poppy plants with pangas and annihilate the next opium harvest? That is a lot of
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Why humans make smoke, why humans smoke pipes filled with burning opium or tobacco, why humans burn their food; comes from 25 million years of volcanoes creating mass death for our pleasure
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Why, after learning to live without their opium, did the people return to it? It is said that the richness and beauty of the ceremonial in the Orthodox Church appeals to the Slav love of colour and drama
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With its ally, the mobile phone, it was the opium of our times
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World War Two soldiers did the same with added things like Benzedrine, soft drinks, K-rations, and every addictive substance they could get their hands on including hashish, marijuana, cocaine, opium, and a host of pills called uppers or downers
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And the direct result? Afghani Robber Baron War lords under American control: have industrialized the drug industry of growing poppies and manufacturing cocaine and opium
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The secret power and wealth of the British Empire was based upon the profits of drug money; the profits from the drugs: Spices, Coffee, Sugar, Tea, Opium
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A reliable test kit will detect the presence of drugs such as cocaine, Marijuana, opium, Ecstasy and Amphetamine
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Prefer an ounce of opium
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Chinese cemeteries with giant poppies growing produce the best opium Mastiansky told me
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"You have given her a very heavy dose of opium
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Only at rare moments, when the opium gave him an instant’s relief from the never-ceasing pain, he would sometimes, half asleep, utter what was ever more intense in his heart than in all the others: ‘Oh, if it were only the end!’ or: ‘When will it be over?’
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At the chemist’s the lank shopman sealed up a packet of powders for a coachman who stood waiting, and refused him opium with the same callousness with which the doctor’s footman had cleaned his lamp chimneys
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Trying not to get flurried or out of temper, Levin mentioned the names of the doctor and midwife, and explaining what the opium was needed for, tried to persuade him
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The assistant inquired in German whether he should give it, and receiving an affirmative reply from behind the partition, he took out a bottle and a funnel, deliberately poured the opium from a bigger bottle into a little one, stuck on a label, sealed it up, in spite of Levin’s request that he would not do so, and was about to wrap it up too
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Without waking him, she went back, and after a second dose of opium she fell towards morning into a heavy, incomplete sleep, during which she never quite lost consciousness
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And when he reported that they were—ill—they did not “He had opium
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He was not excessively fond of wine, but he had several times taken too much, simply as an experiment in that form of ecstasy; he had fasted till he was faint, and then supped on lobster; he had made himself ill with doses of opium
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Nothing greatly original had resulted from these measures; and the effects of the opium had convinced him that there was an entire dissimilarity between his constitution and De Quincey's
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Under the first galling pressure of foreseen difficulties, and the first perception that his marriage, if it were not to be a yoked loneliness, must be a state of effort to go on loving without too much care about being loved, he had once or twice tried a dose of opium
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But just as he had tried opium, so his thought now began to turn upon gambling—not with appetite for its excitement, but with a sort of wistful inward gaze after that easy way of getting money, which implied no asking and brought no responsibility
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Lydgate, when abroad, had already been interested in this question: he was strongly convinced against the prevalent practice of allowing alcohol and persistently administering large doses of opium; and he had repeatedly acted on this conviction with a favorable result
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The chief new instruction that Lydgate had to give was on the administration of extremely moderate doses of opium, in case of thesleeplessness continuing after several hours
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He had taken the precaution of bringing opium in his pocket, and he gave minute directions to Bulstrode as to the doses, and the point at which they should cease
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At six o'clock, Raffles, having had only fitful perturbed snatches of sleep, from which he waked with fresh restlessness and perpetual cries that he was sinking away, Bulstrode began to administer the opium according to Lydgate's directions
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She began now to ask what else she should do besides administering the opium
