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Example sentences for: opium

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In the aftermath of the Opium Wars, trade in “foreign mud” was resumed at a level even higher than before, although the major traders, by now respectable and diversified, stopped their trading in 1907.
That when he was playing with La Monte Young, John Cale was given LSD, pot, and opium to help him "sustain a note on his viola for two hours at a stretch"?
In 1860, during the Second Opium War, British and French troops forcibly occupied Beijing and exacted treaty rights.
His heir, Humayun, preferred opium and astrology to complex State affairs; he was driven out of India into Persia by General Sher Shah, who proved to be a much more able ruler.
Earlier this week, the Pakistani paper Dawn ran an editorial about reports that Pakistani poppy growers are planning to recultivate opium on a bigger scale because they haven't received promised compensation for switching to other crops.