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   Opium

   Map showing the amount of Opium produced in China in 1908 ... This proposal is to license Afghan farmers to produce opium for the world pharmaceutical market, and thereby solve another problem, that of chronic underuse of potent analgesics where required within developing nations.
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   Illegal drug trade in the People's Republic of China

   Opium produced in these areas is not converted into heroin, but is consumed locally by the ethnic minority groups in these isolated areas. ... According to United Nations (U.N.) International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) data, China produces approximately 14 metric tons of licit opium per year for use in the domestic pharmaceutical industry.
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   East India Company

   As opium trade was illegal in China, Company ships could not carry opium to China. So the opium produced in Bengal was sold in Calcutta on condition that it be sent to China.
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   Honourable East India Company

   As opium trade was illegal in China, Company ships could not carry opium to China. ... It sold St Helena coffee branded with the Company name and also produced a book on the history of the Company.
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   Opium Wars

   Against strong protest from the weakened Qing Dynasty, Britain began exporting opium to China from British India in the 18th century to counter its deficit. ... Thus, the British East India Company would buy tea in Canton on credit, carrying no opium, but would instead sell opium at the auctions in Calcutta.
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   Opium production in Afghanistan

   According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 2007 Afghanistan Opium Survey, Afghanistan produced approximately 8,200 metric tonnes of opium — nearly double the estimate of global annual consumption. ... Faizabad, in Badakhshan province, which has borders with Tajikstan, Pakistan, and China.
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   First Opium War

   The drug was produced in the traditionally cotton growing regions of India (under British government monopoly (Bengal) and in the Princely states (Malwa) and was sold on the condition that it be shipped by British traders to China. ... ↑ Opium War
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   Opium den

   Opium dens in China were frequented by all levels of society, and their opulence or simplicity reflected the financial means of the patrons.
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   Protestant missions in China 1807-1953

   Map showing the amount of Opium produced in China in 1908
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    Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs

    This could happen as a result of failing to control either illicit production or diversion of licitly produced opium to illicit purposes. ... Hemp-growing countries include China, Romania, France, Germany, Netherlands, England, and Hungary.

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• Opium den,
• Protestant missions in China 1807-1953,
• Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs