Word: opium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...salt tax is one of the most immoral acts this Government has ever been responsible for, especially because it is collected stealthily [i. e. as an indirect tax]. [Our] next attack should be on [other] taxes which are just as immoral. I mean the liquor and opium taxes. Through the Indian Government's monopoly of opium production, India has been made responsible for drugging the world, and her own children have been made poor and miserable by the contraction of these degenerating drink and drug habits...
...Anglo-Indian select committee on dangerous drugs unanimously recommended, last week, that the cultivation of cocoa plants for the manufacture of cocaine be authorized in India, that the sale of this drug should be a state monopoly like opium...
...Salt & Opium. As he painfully kept up his 200-mile walk, last week?not like an imaginary Statesman Stimson trudging to London?but as the unique "Recpolman" Gandhi, breathless spectators watched...
...Opium is also a British monopoly in India...
...clergy and congregations of the West becoming suddenly incensed against the statesmen of Soviet Russia who, for some twelve years past, have denied the existence of God or gods, and have steadily maintained that Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, called "Lenin," uttered a profound truth when he said: "Religion is opium for the people...