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Two people have been arrested in connection with trafficking fentanyl over the weekend, according to the Catawba County Sheriff’s Office. Saturday morning, deputies stopped a vehicle along US ...

He was a controversial businessman — having been arrested for owning an opium smoke house in 1880 — who owned a two-story house that doubled as a gambling joint and an opium den, a crime in ...

Following a ban on poppy cultivation in Afghanistan imposed by the de facto authorities, the Taliban, in April 2022, opium production plunged by an estimated 95 percent by 2023 from 6,200 tons in ...

The Opium Wars signalled the start of what is referred to as the “century of humiliation” in China, a period when the country was colonized and dictated to by foreign powers.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Two years after the Taliban banned opium, Afghan farmers turning to alternative crops are discovering that many no longer grow easily here because of the impact of ...

One has ‘the largest collection in Asia’ of opium paraphernalia. Further into Thailand stands a monument dedicated to the ‘world’s most notorious drug lord’ Reading Time: 6 minutes ...

San Francisco's prohibitionists worried that opium dens were patronized by "young men and women of respectable parentage" as well as "the vicious and the depraved." Anti-Chinese Xenophobia Fueled ...

The opium dens "patronized by the lower classes defy description," the paper said, but gave it a go anyway: "Imagine a room less than fifteen feet square, with a ceiling about eight feet high.

It was in Javanese ports that Chinese sailors learned the habit of smoking tobacco dipped in Dutch-made liquid opium. They brought the practice back to Chinese port cities, where opium dens ...

Drye was charged with trafficking heroin, maintaining a dwelling, resist/obstruct/delay an officer – non-assault, trafficking in marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, possessing a stolen ...