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61. China paid staggering twenty one million tael of silver as war reparation when the British defeated China in the First Opium War.

62. Poverty, warlordism and rebels have made Helmand the great opium den of the world.

63. Lower incentive for opium and higher incentive for licit crops all of this has caused a voluntary shift by farmers out of opium into licit crops.

64. The French, for their part, encouraged opium cultivation in their Indochinese colonies, making opium a state monopoly.

65. After the Opium War, suffering aggression from imperialism, China became a semi-colonial, semi-feudal country, which resulted in various changes in politics , economy and culture.

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66. Police found Jones hiding in an opium den, among other men, all hopped up with the drug.

67. Article 351 Whoever illegally cultivates mother plants of narcotic drugs, such as opium poppy and marijuana, shall be forced to uproot them.

68. Opium, morphine, heroin, marihuana and other addictive drugs and psychotropic substance.

69. Opium was labelled wu xiang or 'black fragrance' by the editors of Da Ming Huidian, as Yu Zhengxie, a Qing court historiographer, decoded.

70. Both papers say they wore their Remembrance Day poppies despite being warned by the Chinese this would stir up unhappy memories of the Opium Wars.

71. In 1998 the UN General Assembly committed member countries to achieving a "drug-free world" and to "eliminating or significantly reducing" the production of opium, cocaine and cannabis by 2008.

72. Heroin is an opiate processed directly from the extracts of the opium poppy.

73. The consequence of opium war was, sadly to say, China gave Hong Kong to British[sentencedict.com], and later on been forced to open another five seaports to allow free import and outport trade with foreigners.

74. "We had heard of temporary marriage but not of temporary thieves, " Grandma said dismissively. "And judging by the way you look, you're just an opium addict. "

75. Opium poppy seed food supervision and management concerns human health.

76. In later Qing Dynasty, the roily era, China, the people with ethnocentrism failed completely in the Opium War.

77. In 1840, western powers invaded China through their forces and opium. After that, China was reduced to a semi-colony and semi-feudal society.

78. And by understanding how the opium poppy produces these compounds, scientists may be able to manipulate the production of opiates by genetically engineering plants or manufacturing them in a lab.

79. China has repeatedly demanded the return of the sculptures looted when the Old Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan) was burned down by Anglo-French forces during the Second Opium War in 1860.

80. He seldom took them when he was alone, and he never had his own supplier, relying on doctor friends to procure hashish, opium, and, on one occasion, mescaline .

81. Whether the fatuity of the Chinese emperor and his ministers in Qing dynasty is the secondary cause of the failure in the Opium War ?

82. As Dorian hurried up its three rickety steps, the heavy odour of opium met him.

83. He bore a part in the suppression of opium - smoking.

84. The committee report also expresses concern about the slow progress in curbing opium poppy production in Afghanistan.

85. Those who drive the illegal opium industry, Walters said, "are the landowners, who force sharecroppers to grow poppy, rather than licit agricultural products."

86. Afghanistan is still the world's biggest source of the opium poppy, despite the presence of foreign troops.

87. Chinese officials apparently asked the UK delegation not to wear Remembrance Day poppies because they were a symbol of China's humiliation at the hands of Europe in the opium wars.

88. Foods adulterated with toxic or harmful substances such as opium poppy.

89. Had the government deprived Coleridge of opium, he might have been happier.

90. American school kids (and American adults) don't know much, if anything, about the two Opium Wars, but in China they are an ever-present reminder of national humiliation.