Word: opium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Establishment of a central board to which all countries should furnish estimates of their opium requirements and, at the same time, guarantee to prohibit excess importations...
...opium is manufactured mainly in India, China, Persia and Turkey from the juice of the poppy. The annual production is about 3,900 tons, but not more than 350 tons a year is necessary to medicine and science. The cultivation of poppies, therefore, is a great source of revenue to these states...
...small iron instrument previously dipped in oil. It is then worked in a heated pot until it is thick and can be formed into cakes about four pounds in weight. The cakes are than packed in leaves to prevent them sticking together, and dried. This is raw opium...
...Prepared opium is made in many different ways according to whether it is to be smoked or eaten. The usual form is to boil it with other chemicals (clarify it for eating) and make it into pills which are then smoked with ordinary tobacco...
Whether it is smoked or eaten, the effects of opium vary according to the mental disposition of the consumers. To the bright, happy man all manner of pleasing scenes are presented; an ambitious man will fancy himself a gloried Napoleon; a man will liverish fancy man will himself be seized with morbid visions and filled with horror and dismay. About half to one hour is necessary for the opium to take effect and cause slumber from which the consumer awakes exhausted, pensive and melancholy. The drug is dangerously habit-forming and becomes so necessary to the addict that he cannot...