Beer could be laced with opium to ward off the malaria that flourished in the Fens.
The farmers' resistance to abandoning opium poppies is common across the province of Badakhshan.
There is disunity not only on the opium problem but on how to fight the war.
The opium harvesting was part of the normal pattern of life for the village children.
But time, opium and arrogance eventually got in the way, and the lie began to falter.
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Casinos have become the hottest new business for former opium kingpins, mass murderers and shady politicians.
Indian opium is of exceptionally good quality and is much coveted in the international market.
Opium has been around in Afghanistan for centuries, used as a kind of medical cure-all.
The Drug Enforcement Administration estimated that opium provided the Taliban with 70% of its revenue.
This is where buyers find themselves in the opium den that is Porsche's car configurator.
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Counter-narcotics also suffered a setback: Opium production increased "substantially" in 2007, the report says.
This was booty seized during the opium wars and then the Boxer uprising of 1900.
There is a good deal about opium (as there should be) but much less about triads.
Oguz says the cannabis plant is also much easier to grow than opium poppies.
At the entrance of two rooms, pieces of an ebony wood Chinese "opium bed" hang overhead.
Myanmar, after all, is one of the world's leading producers of opium and heroin.
The UN says the correlation between insecurity and opium cultivation has been apparent for several years.
Opium production in Afghanistan has fallen by a third, according to a United Nations report.
The opium, like the generals' efforts at image-enhancement, did not, at first, catch fire.
In 2003, opium was banned in Kokang Special Region No. 1, just north of the Wa.
Kya Law is painfully aware that the next opium harvest will be his last.
The rope is not a normal gallows rope but the stem of an opium poppy.
He backed aerial spraying of coca and opium-poppy fields, even though it seemed ineffectual.
The country's valuable exports are either smuggled out (lapis, emeralds, artefacts) or illegal (opium).
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Opium is cultivated from the poppy seed illicitly all over the world and converted into heroin.
Efforts by aid agencies and the UN to stymie opium production seem to have been counter-productive.
In October 2009 a UN report said Afghanistan's illegal opium production had devastating global consequences.
The United States has condemned Myanmar as the biggest producer of opium after Afghanistan.
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