Back then, Pollan was forced to cut out certain parts of his article, including a description of his own consumption of opium tea prepared from seed heads harvested from his garden, on legal advice.

Sarah Rose, For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire ... Zheng Yangwen, The Social Life of Opium in China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005). Exam (50%, duration: 2 hours) in the summer ...

Taking account of this global context, Man-houng Lin has claimed that “the British could not find enough silver to pay for tea and silk and ended up using opium as the medium of exchange for ...

The Taliban claims opium poppy cultivation was stopped and the flow of illegal drugs halted when it was last in power in Afghanistan. But although there was a sharp drop in 2001 - when it was last ...

An eerie historic fairground attraction showing the terrifying side effects of taking opium is on display at a new ...

told The Daily Mail that opium gives the birds instant energy - similar to the effect of tea or coffee for a human. He said that once the birds had experienced this feeling, they would quickly ...

PRESENTER:'They then bought up Indian opium and sold it to China, 'buying tea in return. PRESENTER:'And so they created a trading triangle. 'The profits were high, but so was the risk. PRESENTER ...