How to pronounce “opium” in English

opium into China with u uh with Merchants Merchants like Mr Burnham who were like sort of free they were called

opium trade in the 19th century brought the British India Company in many years more Revenue than the entire revenue of

opium gum of a consistency such that a balll of it would stick briefly to your palm if you abended it who would guess

"About Opium. Jean Cocteau himself addicted suggested that official chemistry modify opium's toxicity while salvaging the euphoria.

the opium trade as well as the coie trade so uh uh I'm going to read to you

century opium the trade in opium was a monopoly of the British East India Company but

on opium morphine is based on opium anesthetics are based on opium so you know as a substance it's absolutely

where opium was grown in Burma you know 20 30 years ago uh were completely undermined by the uh you know by this

which was opium. So opium is the latex, the fluid that sort of exudes out of cuts you make in the immature seed pods of the poppy.

But that opium, that morphine, also triggers that mesolimbic pathway that we saw earlier.

And smoking opium gives you a much more rapid, a much more intense hit, and therefore so much more potent and a lot more

So the opium imports trebled between 1810 and 1828, and then almost doubled again by 1832.

to stamp out that opium trade.

And the Second Opium War then forced China into fully legalizing opium.

And attacking opium, the practice of taking opium, which had been largely forced on the Chinese by the British-- again, another story-- became a way

Maybe she was doing opium on the side.

The so-called Opium War is a term you may well have heard, which still live in Chinese historical memory in the present day.

People were still selling opium.

Is it an opium den with girls?

cannabis in opium there are receptors in the part of the brain cells that control the heart and the lungs which means when

you take too much opium the brain starts freaking out and it shuts down those centers and then you die cannabis there

don't buy opium don't support the local drug trade this was in English cured towards foreigners and the first thought that

medicine because opium is already one of the most powerful medicines we have uh available to um you know to mankind so

kazipur so the gazipur Opium Factory was founded in

producer of medicinal opium uh in the world if you Google it you will find

1970s uh the gazipur Opium Factory actually is uh it's it's very very well

of the opium trade is nowhere taught you know it's hardly even researched it's an astonishing thing I mean this this the

about the kazipur Opium Factory although the southern opium Factory of

but of liquid opium mixed with the dull stench of sweat a reek so powerful that she had to pinch her nose to keep

society you know opium in itself is is not a bad thing you know it's like fire

And so this pipeline-- pumping opium, forcing it into China-- expanded and expanded until, in 1806, just

It was just an open trade of opium into China after that.

He thought religion was the opium of the masses.

There was kind of an opium trade trail that appeared through the mountains.

He's also holding an opium pipe in his left hand, and he's resting on a human skull.

Both the Taliban makes money off of opium as well as the powerful members of the Afghan government.

on the brakes by means of opium, or they change the maddening monotony of the rhythm by means of fermented liquors."

article of belief and uh the Opium Wars were really the first wars fought in the

were used both for transporting opium and for transporting poolies were

Western India and the other was opium now contrary to what you may

free Merchants they would take the uh opium was banned in China in fact the import of U uh opium was had been banned

exactly the districts in which opium was grown you know so when I was looking at the sort of history of these migrants it

actually uh working in the Opium Factory as an assembler the Opium is to be packed in these big black balls so he's

here used for the weighing of raw opium clustered around each set of scales were dozens of earn wear garas of exactly the

mean the the memory of the opium trade the memory of op of opium uh is completely excised from memory

every site connected with the Opium Wars has actually been beautifully preserved and it's really really educational you

you know the thing about opium or say for example Koka or um cat which is used

know in trying to suppress opium you end up with her you know um

of uh uh um um opium crates and they destroyed them so this became the