A hundred grains laudanum?

Afghanistan remains the world's largest supplier of opium, producing 87 per cent of the world's opium.

C. Opium production

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Twenty ounces tincture of opium. Fifty ounces of vitriol.

Afghanistan s Opium War

Mario Draghi s Opiate of the Markets

Winning with Opium in Afghanistan

Religion is the opiate of the masses.

Opium production has increased.

They once found opium there in some ghee tins

I know what's inside. Opium

In that connection, he welcomed opium importers affirmation that they would continue to give preference to traditional suppliers of opium raw materials.

Winfried Kleinert (Germany), Federal Opium Agency, Berlin

I. Opium global production estimates, 1995 4

Just heard that he claimed that you play the piano in an opium den.

It meant paying with opium for Chinese goods.

This may be caused by the relatively smaller spread of opium trafficking as a result of its bulkier mass and the greater profitability of heroin, which leads to more opium being set aside locally for refining into heroin.

These walls must not believe their ears to hear such silence from the right from the left.

As a result of the project, all the target areas, with a population of approximately 2,600 persons, who were heavily dependent on opium growing for their livelihood, were declared opium free.

Such measures would help reduce production.

Note Heroin and morphine are shown as opium equivalent.

36. Opium production on any significant scale was detected for the first time in 1988.

Latin America accounts for more than two per cent of the global production of opium.

Opiate seizures appear high in 1993, owing to large amounts reported seized in the Islamic Republic of Iran and in Turkey.

Another expert, reviewing the situation in China, emphasized the determination with which successive Governments of China had fought both opium abuse and the traffic in opium from foreign sources.

Moreover, while certain efforts by the Government of Afghanistan have resulted in the reduction of opium cultivation in some regions traditionally famous for opium production, opium cultivation has increased in the regions bordering my country, especially in the Farah province.

In 1909, 13 countries formed an Opium Commission, leading to the conclusion of the International Opium Convention, signed at The Hague on 23 January 1912.

And little Billy says, My father plays the piano in an opium den.

Cotton does not compete with opium a t shirt does.

Demand for and supply of opiates for medical and scientific purposes

2. Opium seizures, by region, 1980 1994 5

5. More than 90 per cent of all illicit opium originates in Asia.

In Shinwar district, opium cultivation was almost unchanged.

Myanmar was one of the major producers of illicit opiates.

Figures 1. Opium global illicit production and seizures, 1980 1994 4

22. Opiates and cocaine global interception rate estimates, 1980 1994 18 INTRODUCTION

It is complemented by a ban on opium cultivation, gradually enforced by the government.

You're not really a smuggler, are you?

Religion for the people. Opium for the aching limb.

Despite their efforts to address the problem, however, Afghanistan remains the largest opium producer in the world, providing nearly 87 per cent of the world's total supply.

Figure 1. Opium global illicit production and seizures, 1980 1994

Note Seized heroin and morphine are shown as opium equivalent.

Figure 2. Opium a seizures, by region, 1980 1994

Opium poppy cultivation is the principal economic activity in Afghanistan and the current production of dry opium more than 2,200 metric tons a year reportedly equals the combined production of the other three biggest opium producers in the world, with important consequences for the global consumption of heroin.