It won’t surprise readers of Ghosh’s earlier nonfiction that he gives the opium poppy star billing as a “historical force in its own right” here. Papaver somniferum is a “sort of ...

I f Edgar Allan Poe had written screenplays, The Masque of the Red Death would be one eerie Oscar contender. The classic ...

We are in receipt of inquiries in regard to the cultivation of poppies, and the manufacture of opium ; it having been suggested by certain agricultural journals that there are various parts of the ...

A sketch in an 1889 edition of the Minneapolis Star Tribune of opium smoking in China. For two bits, or 25 cents, Poon used an ivory paddle to scoop thick, black paste onto a used playing card.

The UN believes this is driven by economic hardship and insecurity, along with higher global prices for the opium resin that is used to make heroin. • It touched nearly 795 metric tonnes in 2022 ...

One product that the British could access in large quantities was opium grown in territories under their colonial control. The British response to address the trade imbalance was to flood the ...