Opium for the Masses? Conflict-Induced Narcotics Production in Afghanistan [PDF]
We show that the recent rise in Afghan opium production is caused by violent conflicts. Violence destroys roads and irrigation, crucial to alternative crops, and weakens local incentives to rebuild infrastructure and enforce law and order.
Fredrik Willumsen +2 more
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Journal of Research on History of Medicine, 2017 Opium was one of the drugs in the medieval history of Persia which has been used in medical affairs. By commercialization of poppy in Qajar dynasty with the permeation of the colonial policies, the material was conveyed to India and thence to China as a ...
Mostafa Namdari Monfared
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O uso do ópio na sociedade romana e a dependência do Princeps Marco Aurélio.
Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2009 Opium was known and frequently used in Roman society. Medical practice recognized its usefulness as an analgesic, soporific, anti-tussic or anti-diarrheic agent, as well as other currently unsupported uses with quasi-magical properties.
Bruno Trancas +2 more
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Perdagangan Opium dan Narcoterrorism di Afghanistan (Studi Kasus Narcoterrorism oleh Taliban Tahun 2007-2010) [PDF]
, 2017 The opium trafficking in Afghanistan is one of the International crimes that have long been a state problem. It becomes more complicated when terrorist organizations get involved. Hence narcoterrorism.
Pattypelohy, S. C. (Shary) +2 more
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The Relationship between Illegal Drugs and Violence: Is There a Cause and Effect? [PDF]
, 2010 Latin American ...
Thoumi, Francisco E.
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Spatiotemporal oscillations of morphinan alkaloids in opium poppy
Journal of Biosciences, 2018 Here, a comprehensive endeavor is made to simultaneously scrutinize spatiotemporal oscillations of three imperative morphinan alkaloids (i.e. thebaine, codeine, and morphine) alongside dynamic transcriptional patterns of TYDC, SalAT, COR, T6ODM, and CODM genes in different tissues of Papaver somniferum (i.e.
Mahdi, Rezaei +4 more
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The role of phloem sieve elements and laticifers in the biosynthesis and accumulation of alkaloids in opium poppy† [PDF]
, 2006 Nailish Samanani +4 more
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First Report of Fruit Rot in Opium Poppy (Papaver somniferum) Caused by Alternaria alternata in China [PDF]
, 2020 Liwei Guo +7 more
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Contracts, Hold-Up, and Exports: Textiles and Opium in Colonial India [PDF]
Trade and export, it is argued, spur economic growth. This paper studies the microeconomics of exporting. We build a heuristic model of transactions between exporters and producers and relate it to East India Company operations in colonial Bengal.
Anand V. Swamy, Rachel E. Kranton
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Alternate transcripts of a floral developmental regulator have both distinct and redundant functions in opium poppy [PDF]
, 2011 Philip Hands +4 more
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