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The Opium Wars, Opium Legalization, and Opium Consumption in China [PDF]
The effect of drug prohibition on drug consumption is a critical issue in debates over drug policy. One episode that provides information on the consumption-reducing effect of drug prohibition is the Chinese legalization of opium in 1858.
Chris Feige, Jeffrey A. Miron
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Indian Journal of PsychiatryBackground: Historically and culturally, natural opium is considered less harmful in comparison to heroin/pharmaceutical opioids, but the evidence regarding this is limited and mostly indirect.
Mukesh Kumar Swami +8 more
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Opium induces apoptosis in Jurkat cells via promotion of pro-apoptotic and inhibition of anti-apoptotic molecules [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences, 2016 Objective(s): The aim of this study was to determine the important molecules involved in apoptosis induction by opium in Jurkat cell line. Materials and Methods: Jurkat cells were incubated 48 hrs with2.86×10-5 g/ml concentration of opium and apoptosis ...
Mohammad Kazemi Arababadi +1 more
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Biochemical properties of lipoxygenase from opium poppy chloroplasts
, 2012 Lipoxygenase (LOX) from opium poppy (Papaver somniferum L.) chloroplasts was isolated and 126.1-fold purified to electrophoretic homogeneity by combination of ion-exchange chromatography on HA-Ultragel column and affinity chromatography on a linoleyl ...
M. Cupáková +5 more
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Opium in the Orient : report of the Philippine Commission /
, 1905 Mode of access ...
Anti-Opium League in China.
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Ceylon. Correspondence relating to the consumption of opium in Ceylon.
, 1908 Includes report of a committee appointed by the Governor to report upon the sale of opium in Ceylon.Mode of access ...
Ceylon. Committee on Opium. +1 more
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The "joy plant": a tough factoïd
, 2022 The opium poppy is of interest to several disciplines (medical, anthropology, geopolitics, etc.) and more particularly its use in medicinal or ritual recipes, since the ancient period in the Near East and in the Mediterranean area.
Aurélie Salavert
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Opium Trade and the Ch‘ing Policy to Replace Indian Opium with Native Opium [PDF]
, 1996 In 1869, Wen-xiang (文祥) one of the ministers of Tsung-li-Yamen proposed to Rutherford Alcock, H. M.’s ambassador to China, to simultaneously stop the poppy cultivation in India and China.
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