Word: opium
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...first thesis chapter, the day my heater quits and the day that Harvard turns a pathetic color gray for six weeks with no snow. So instead of doing my school work, I will close my blinds and dedicate my precious evening hours to Must-See TV, the opium of the masses. In the coming weeks, 80 percent of the people I see each day will be prettier, happier and more successful than I am. None of this will warp my self-perceptions in the slightest...
...themselves free once again to cultivate and export hashish without fear, and often with warlord protection. Moreover, the international perception that cannabis is a relatively benign drug?prompting some authorities across Europe and Australia to decriminalize its use?has persuaded drug-policing agencies to largely ignore it. So, while opium cultivation is monitored to the acre, neither Interpol, the U.N. Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention nor the U.S.'s Drug Enforcement Agency can offer even rough estimates for how much hashish Afghanistan produces or what the trade is worth. But around Mazar it's almost impossible to find...
...communists brought their monochromatic palette to China and Shanghai was straitjacketed as punishment for its formerly outr? ways. Only now, after years of repression, has Shanghai finally erupted into technicolor. The city is embracing its sequined past with decadent bars, eateries and nightclubs. Ecstasy is the new opium, and the required accessory is a top-end Nokia instead of a polished walking stick. The excesses that stoked Shanghai's legendary past are fueling its future as well. After-dinner conversations are filled with, "So I was in Paris over the weekend," or "We bought the apartment because...
...Numbers 2,952 tons of opium will be produced in Afghanistan this year, the U.N. estimates, making the country the world's single largest producer...
...rights back. That kind of mass organization is just what frightens Beijing, which is leery of any gathering free of government supervision. Until then, Chen is happily playing computer games, interacting only with his avatar, a 19th century warlord. The name of Chen's online alter ego: the Opium Smoker...