opium
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It focuses first on Art Keller, a 47-year-old ex-CIA agent hired by the newly formed DEA to help destroy the Mexican opium trade.
The Los Angeles Times ran a particularly snarky article around the time of the 1943 concert that dismissed the singer as “an opium of emotionalism.”
So, when the anti-opium movement tried to constrain the British Empire from selling opium, the British deflected the blame onto the Chinese demand for it.
From Los Angeles Times
A state media news outlet described online games as “spiritual opium,” an allusion to past eras when addiction to the drug was widespread in China.
From Seattle Times
Charles Yates, NCA deputy director, said he did not believe there was currently a direct link between the availability of nitazenes and the ban of harvesting opium poppies in Afghanistan, which some have suggested.
From BBC
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