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Opium

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by Martin Booth


  Kintex/KoKintex

  Koechlin, Consul-general

  Kokang district

  Kolb, Dr Lawrence

  Kong island

  Koo, Mme Wellington

  Koreans

  Kowloon

  Kriangsak, General

  Kronprinzessin Cecilie (ship)

  Kung, Prince bis

  Kunming

  Kuomintang (KMT)

  passim

  Kurdish areas

  Kut Sang, SS

  Kwangtung province

  Kweichow

  Kyi, Aung San Suu

  Kyrgyzstan

  La Marr, Barbara

  La Motte, Ellen

  The Ethics of Opium

  Ladies’ Sanitary Association

  Lafargue, Dr

  Lagos

  Lahore

  Lahu tribe

  Lahu National Liberation Army (LNLA)

  Laloy, Louis

  Le Livre de la Fumée

  Lancet, The

  Lang Son area

  Lanrick (clipper)

  Lansky, Meyer

  lanthopine

  Lao Development Air Service

  Laos

  see also Golden Triangle, notably

  Laotian Opium Administration

  Laredo

  Larne, HMS (sloop)

  Las Vegas

  Lascars

  Latin America/ns

  laudanine

  laudanosine

  laudanum

  compared with morphine

  types

  Battley’s drops

  Josephi Michaelis

  Paracelsus’s

  Sydenham’s

  users, famous

  La Verne, Dr Albert A.

  League of Nations

  Advisory Committee on … Opium

  Lebanon passim, bis

  ‘Lebanese Gold’ (hashish)

  Lee, Christopher

  Lee, Harper

  To Kill a Mockingbird

  Lee Sing Company

  Leigh, John

  Experimental inquiry into the properties of opium

  Lester, Muriel

  Levant Company

  Levinstein, Dr Edward

  Die Morphiumsucht (The Morbid Craving for Morphia)

  levomethadyl acetate

  Lewin, Professor Louis

  Phantastica

  Li Mah (gangster)

  Li Ting

  The Introduction to Medicine

  Li Wen-huan, General

  Liberia

  Libya

  Liechtenstein

  Lima

  Lin Chien-pang (gangster)

  Lin Mingxian (communist leader)

  Lin Tse-hsu (commissioner)

  Lin Wei-hsi (peasant)

  Linnaeus

  linolic acid

  Lintin Island (Neilingding Dao)

  Lintin (ship)

  Liquifruita Medica

  Lisu tribe

  Little, E.S.

  Liverpool

  Lo Hsing-han (warlord)

  Lo Hsing-min (warlord)

  Lockerbie bombing

  ‘Loimaw bandits’ see Mong Tai Army

  London

  London Pharmacopoeia (1788)

  London, Professor Edythe

  Ling Binh

  Long Sutton

  Long Tieng

  Longfellow, Henry

  lorchas (sailing vessels)

  Los Angeles

  Louisa (cutter)

  Lowe Countries

  Lowe, Dr Christopher

  LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)

  Luciano, Charles ‘Lucky’ (Salvatore C. Luciana)

  Ludlow, Fitzhugh

  Lugard, Sir Frederick

  Lui Lok, Sergeant

  Luxembourg

  Lysis

  Lytton, Bulwer

  M50/50 (Revivon)

  M99 (Immobilon)

  Ma Sik-chun (‘Golden Ma’)

  Ma Sik-yu (‘White Powder Ma’)

  Macartney, Lord

  Macau

  foundation of colony

  in colonial times

  money laundering

  opium smoking

  opium smuggling

  McCarthy, Senator

  McCoy, Alfred W.

  The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia

  Macedonia

  Macfarlan Smith & Co.

  MacKay, Captain

  Madagascar

  Madhya Pradesh

  Madras

  Madrid

  Mafia

  American

  associates of

  money laundering by

  smashing of

  in Armenia

  in Australia

  in Balkans

  in Russia and CIS

  Italian

  Ndrangheta

  Sacra Corona Unita

  Sicilian

  Sicilian Connection

  Magellan, Ferdinand

  Magendie, François

  Formulary for … Several New Remedies

  Mahaban Mountains

  Maimi

  Malacca

  malaria

  Malaya/Malaysia

  addiction cure

  coolie immigrants in Malay peninsula

  legislation

  Malayan in De Quincey’s dreams

  revenue

  Triads in

  Mallinckrodt Laboratories

  Malta

  Malwa

  Manchester bis

  Manchester Guardian

  Manchu Penal Code

  Manchuria

  Mang Tang Wu (village)

  Manila

  Mao Zedong, Chairman

  Maratha states

  Marcus Aurelius

  marijuana

  Marseilles

  Martinique

  Massacre of Innocents, The (tract)

  Matheson, Donald

  Matheson, James

  Mauritius

  May, Earl of

  Mayer, Surgeon Major Nathan

  Mazatlan

  Mazeppa (clipper)

  Mecone (city of poppies)

  meconic acid

  meconidine

  meconion

  Medellin cartel

  Melbourne

  Merck (chemist)

  Merope (ship)

  mescaline

  Mesopotamia

  methadone

  methedrine

  Mexico

  crop eradication

  ‘Mexican federation’ (drug barons)

  Mexicans in Guatemala

  money laundering

  opium output

  quality and types of Mexican drugs

  smuggling to USA

  Miami

  Middle East

  Milan

  missionaries

  Christians linked to opium

  Jackie Pullinger

  Jesuits

  Karl Gutzlaff

  others

  Misuse of Drugs Act (UK 1971)

  Mitcham

  Mithridates

  mithridatum

  Mogul Empire

  Mon tribe

  Mon National State Army (MNSA)

  money laundering

  Britain

  Bulgaria

  Cali cartels

  Eastern Europe

  ‘Fast Eddie’

  Lebanon

  Milan

  Pakistan

  Puerto Rico

  USA

  world legislation

  Yugoslavia, former

  Mong Tai Army (MTA)

  Mongolia

  monopolies

  Montauk

  Moore, Dr William J.

  Morocco

  Morpheus (god of sleep)

  morphine

  999 trademark

  addiction

  bacterium that eats it

  comparisons

  morphine content of types of opium

  morphine and other alkaloids

  morp
hine and other drugs

  controls

  description

  discovery

  heroin preferred to

  medicinal use

  methods of taking

  in ‘cocktails’

  injection

  pills

  name

  poisoning by

  preferred to opium

  production

  products used in cutting

  quantities produced

  smuggling

  supposed cure for opium addiction

  Morrison, Robert

  Moses

  movies see film industry

  Mowqua (merchant)

  Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup

  mui tsai (sale of girls)

  Mujaheddin

  mule trains

  ‘mules’ (people) see couriers

  Mundelein, Cardinal

  The Danger of Hollywood: A Warning to Young Girls (pamphlet)

  Munich

  Muslims/Islam

  Mussolini, Benito

  Myanmar see Burma

  N-methylcyclopropylnorxymorphone

  naloxone

  Namoa

  Nangarhar province

  Napier, Lord William

  narceine

  Narcotic Drugs Import and Export Act (US 1922)

  narcotine (noscapine)

  National Anti-Opium Bureau/Opium Suppression Committee (China)

  National Institute of Drug Abuse (USA)

  National Narcotics Intelligence Consumers Committee (USA)

  National Socialist Council of Nagaland

  NATO

  Ndrangheta (Mafia)

  Ne Win, President (of Burma)

  Nembutal

  Nepal

  nepenthe

  Nero

  Nerval, Gerard de

  Netherlands/Dutch

  Nevada

  New Delhi

  New Hampshire

  New York

  addiction

  Chinese and Japanese gangs

  opium dens (1920s)

  Pleasant Avenue Connection

  smuggling into

  New Zealand

  Newman, Dr J.P.

  Newsweek (magazine)

  Ng Sik-ho (‘Limpy Ho’)

  Ng-a-Choy (speaker against opium)

  Ngo Dinh Diem, Prime Minister

  Nicaragua

  nicotine

  Nigeria

  Ningpo

  nitrous oxide

  Nixon, President

  Nonsuch (ship)

  Noriega, General Manuel

  Normand, Mabel

  North-West Frontier Province

  Northern Ireland

  noscapine (narcotine)

  Nottingham

  Nye (merchant)

  Nyswander, Marie

  Oakland, California

  Offences Against the Person Act (UK 1861)

  Office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement (USA)

  Office for Drug Abuse Prevention (USA)

  Office of National Narcotics Intelligence (USA)

  Okpebie, Sabinus Knem (Ibbinije Obasa Nepoleon)

  Old Delhi

  Old Man of the Mountain (Persian myth)

  oleic acid

  Oliphant & Co.

  Omega (ship)

  On Leong triad

  Operation X (French Indo–China)

  opiates

  chemically defined

  ‘cocktails’

  semi-synthetic

  synthetic

  opioids

  opium

  see also addiction, poppies

  composition and derivatives

  cultivation and processing

  divans (dens)

  effects

  alters perception

  calmness

  dreams/visions

  sexual

  desire/potency allegedly increased

  desire suppressed

  orgasmic sensation

  shortens life expectancy

  ‘soul rubbed down with silk’

  wasting away

  ‘white opium night’

  history

  early use

  15th–18th centuries

  Romantic period

  17th-early 19th centuries

  19th–20th centuries

  Britain

  China and Hong Kong

  Opium Wars

  USA

  ‘Jesus-Opium’

  means of taking

  early experiments

  eating

  eating vs smoking

  injection

  passive consumption

  smoking

  smoking with tobacco

  medicinal uses

  ancient world passim

  anaesthetic/pre-surgery

  diarrhoea and dysentery

  painkiller

  patent medicines

  myths

  the switch to heroin

  Opium Ordinance (Hong Kong)

  Opium Suppression of Shanghai (aeroplane)

  Opium War, First

  Opium War, Second

  Oporinus

  Orient Express

  Ormsby Gore, Alice

  Osgood, Dr D.W.

  Osler, Sir William

  Ottoman Empire

  oxynarcotine

  Pacific Rim

  Paderborn

  Pakistan/is

  money laundering

  opium output

  rejects Paris Protocol

  in USA

  Palermo

  Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO)

  Palestinians

  Pall Mall Gazette

  Palmerston, Lord

  palmitic acid

  Panama

  Papaver bracteatum (poppy)

  Papaver setigerum (poppy)

  Papaver somniferum (opium poppy)

  papaverine

  Papyrus of Ebers

  Paracelsus

  paracetamol

  Paraguay

  Pardo-Bolland, Salvador

  paregoric

  Paris

  Paris Protocol (1948)

  Parsees

  patent medicines

  Pathans

  Pathet Lao militia bis, bis

  Patna

  Pearl River

  peasant farmers

  Peking

  Beijing Conference

  Peking and Tiensin Times

  Pelletier, Pierre Joseph

  Penang

  Pepsi-Cola

  Pereira, Dr Jonathan

  Perkins & Company

  Permanent Central Opium Board (UN)

  Persia

  ancient

  19th–20th centuries

  quality of Persian opium

  Persian Gulf

  Peru

  pethidine

  peyote

  Phaktiphat, General Thanat

  Phao, General

  pharmaceutical industry

  Pharmacy Act (UK 1868)

  Philippines

  Philippines Opium Commission

  philonium

  Phnom Penh

  Phouma, Souvanna, son of

  Picasso, Pablo

  Pierce, F.M.

  pipes

  heroin

  opium

  piracy

  Pizza Connection

  Plassey

  Platerus of Basle

  Pleasant Avenue Connection

  Pliny the Elder

  Pneumatic Institution

  Poe, Edgar Allen

  poisoning by drugs

  Poisons and Pharmacy Act (UK 1868)

  Poland

  police

  British

  Gibraltar

  Hong Kong

  USA

  Polo, Marco

  Pomet (druggist to Louis XIV)

  poppies

  botanical classification

  culinary use

  poppy-head tea

  cultivation

  g
rowing

  harvesting

  in Britain

  in Colombia

  in Golden Triangle

  eradication/crop substitution

  Burma

  CIS

  Laos

  Mexico

  Mongolia

  Thailand

  UN projects

  legal production

  as symbol

  poppy acid see meconic acid

  Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)

  Portuguese

  postal services used in smuggling

  Pottinger, Sir Henry bis

  Poulenc, Francis

  Powhattan, USS

  Pravaz, Charles-Gabriel

  Prem, General

  Presidential Commission on Narcotic and Drug Abuse (US 1963)

  President’s Commission on Organised Crime (US)

  Presley, Elvis

  prices and profits

  see also money laundering

  Burma

  China

  Far East

  French Indo–China passim

  Hong Kong

  India

  Japan

  Mexico

  Pakistan

  Peru

  Philippines

  Turkey, compensation paid to

  USA

  DEA statistics

  world

  prickly ash bark

  Prince de Neufchatel (clipper)

  prisons

  Prospero Alpino

  prostitutes

  protocols against drugs

  protopine

  prussic acid

  pseudo-morphine

  Pseudomonas putida M10 (bacterium)

  psychotherapy for addicts

  Pu Yi, Elizabeth (Empress Wan Jung)

  Pu Yi, Henry (Emperor Hsuan Tung)

  Public Health Service (US)

  Puerto Rico/Ricans

  Pullinger, Jackie

  Punta Diamante

  Purchas, Samuel

  Purchas His Pilgrimage

  Pure Food and Drugs Act (US 1906)

  pyridine-phenanthrene alkaloids

  Quakers

  Joseph Rowntree

  Quang, General Dang Van

  racism

  Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations (RICO) statute

  Radiguet, Raymond

  Rafsanjani, President Hashemi

  Ragged Rag-Time Girls

  Rajasthan

  Randolph, John

  Rangoon

  Rattikone, General Ouane

  Rattler, HMS

  Red Rover (clipper)

  Reed, Lou

  Reid, Florence

  Reid, Wallace

  Revivon (M50/50)

  Rhazes

  rhoeadine

  Richard, Keith

  RICO statute

  Rimbaud, Arthur

  Rio Grande

  Robinson, Sir George

  Robiquet (chemist)

  rock musicians

  Rodriguez-Orejuela, Gilberto and Miguel

  Rohmer, Sax (Arthur Ward)

  Rolleston, Sir Henry/Rolleston Committee

  Rollinat, Maurice

  Rolling Stones (pop group)

  Romania/ns

  Romantic Revival

  Rome

  ancient

  modern

  Roosevelt, President

  Rosal, Maurice

  Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

  Rousseau’s Black Drops

  ‘Route 66’ (song)

  Rowntree, Joseph

  Royal Commission on Opium in India (UK 1895)

  Royal Laotian Army

  Royal Navy

  Rubens, Alma

  Russell & Co.

  Russell, Dr

  History of Aleppo

  Russia/ns

  see also USSR

  addiction

  and Afghanistan bis

  and Declaration of Basle

 

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