Karl Marx famously said, "Religion is the opium of the people." But what did he mean by this?

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 ...

Where does opium come from? The opium poppy grows best in warm, dry climates. Most opium is grown in a long, narrow stretch of mountains in central Asia, an area that starts in Turkey and moves ...

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 ...

In 1839, Lin was the Qing dynasty official who confronted the British and their illegal opium trade that pushed the substance on Chinese users; he confiscated 20,000 chests of the drug and cast ...