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...eccentrics. Even so, the guest speaker at the club last week was something out of the ordinary. Introduced as a lecturer on sociology at the University of London, Dr. Mahesh Helai, a learned-looking Turk with a slight beard and sideburns, had chosen as his topic: "The Pleasure of Opium Eating...
...Chinese oracle" ordered Crowley and his handful of disciples to Sicily. Here, Crowley, his ears pierced and hung with rings, "painted and wrote . . . smoked opium, sniffed snow . . . ate grass (hashish), and [took] laudanum, veronal, and anhalonium." He also tried to referee the frequent battles which took place among his concubines...
...reformed smokers until doctors themselves wake up to tobacco's dangers. "About 80% of us are smokers," he estimates sadly, "and we behave collectively like an addict . . . Radical cure of tobacco smoking lies in its prevention and tobacco smoking is no more difficult to prevent than opium smoking. Our duty is plain...
...free of the monster. But would he accept his freedom? It seemed doubtful. It would be too easy to lay boards across the tops of a billion sedans and start all over again with jet propulsion, foam rubber wheels and special lighters for the motorist's neon-trimmed opium pipe...
Getting In. China's Manchu dynasty began to fear the influence of the foreigners on the shaky empire. Citing the importation of opium as their reason, the Manchus began obstructing trade. Tough Merchant Jardine persuaded Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston to send in the British navy. The Manchus fought back, and the result was the 1839 Opium War, which the British won. They made a treaty by which five Chinese ports (Canton, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo and Shanghai) were thrown open to world trade...