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By 1100 BCE, opium was cultivated on Cyprus, where surgical-quality knives were used to score the poppy pods, and opium was cultivated, traded, and smoked.
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By 1914, the problem had grown to the point where an estimated one U. S. citizen in 400 ( 0. 25 %) was addicted to some form of opium.
By 1914, forty-six states had regulations on cocaine and twenty-nine states had laws against opium, morphine, and heroin.
By contrast, opium tincture's weaker cousin, paregoric, also confusingly known as " camphorated tincture of opium ", is 1 / 25th the strength of opium tincture, containing only 0. 4 mg of morphine per mL.
By his own testimony, De Quincey first used opium in 1804 to relieve his neuralgia ; he used it for pleasure, but no more than weekly, through 1812.
By contrast, the RLAF's transport C-47s were still brazenly misused for opium and gold smuggling, and chartered out as civilian airliners.
By adulterating medicines with opium, he managed to addict millions of unsuspecting patients, expanding societal degeneration into areas which had been hitherto untouched by the increasing breakdown of Chinese society.
By 1825 the balance of trade had swung in the other direction, wherein the demand for silver to pay for opium was beginning to affect the national economy.
By a curious sleight of mind, the opium traders persuaded the British Government that it was unreasonable to destroy the goods that they intended to smuggle into China.
By 1976 he had returned to opium smuggling, and set up a base inside northern Thailand in the village of Ban Hin Taek.
By then he had proposed the USA buy his entire opium production or he would sell it on the international narcotics market.
By 1930, addicted to opium and painting frenetically in preparation for his Wertheim exhibition in London, he suffered paranoia and began carrying a revolver.
By the autumn of 1880 Erasmus was in poorly health, suffering from the effects of time and opium, in constant pain and scarcely able to leave home.
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