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    Illegal Drug Trade in China

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    ------------------------------------------------- Treaties and conventions China is a party to the 1988 U.N. Drug Convention‚ the 1961 U.N. Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs as amended by the 1972 Protocol‚ and the 1971 U.N. Convention on Psychotropic Substances. China is a member of the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL)‚ and has been a member of the INCB since 1984. China also participates in a drug control program with Iran‚ Pakistan‚ Tajikistan‚ Turkmenistan‚ Uzbekistan

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    Heroin‚ also known at big H‚ dope‚ smack‚ black tar and many other terms is one of the most dangerous drugs in America and is killing thousands of people all around America. It is made from the opium poppy and is farmed in the Middle East and Mexico. It is then refined to many forms of heroin like black tar‚ white heroin which is the iconic white powder and brown heroin which is usually a murky liquid. I could go on and on about how each type is different but they are all deadly and highly addictive

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    1) Throughout the border state of Punjab‚ whether in villages or cities‚ drugs have become a scourge. Opium is prevalent‚ refined as heroin or other illegal substances. Schoolboys sometimes eat small black balls of opium paste‚ with tea‚ before classes. Synthetic drugs are popular among those too poor to afford heroin. 2) The scale of the problem‚ if impossible to quantify precisely‚ is undeniably immense and worrisome. India has one of the world’s youngest populations‚ a factor that is

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    Kubla Khan

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    deal with supernatural events. At the time of the poem’s publication‚ Coleridge calls Kubla Khan a “fragment” and subtitles it “A Vision in a Dream”‚ adding an introductory note explaining its unusual origin. The poet remarked that after taking some opium for medication‚ to which he was known to be addicted. The story of its composition is also one of the most famous in the history of English poetry. Before falling asleep‚ the author had been reading a passage from Samuel Purcha’s Pilgrimage in which

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    Kubla Khan S.T. Coleridge

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    Kubla Khan Interpretative Approaches "The poem itself is below criticism"‚ declared the anonymous reviewer in the Monthly Review (Jan 1817); and Thomas Moore‚ writing in the Edinburgh Review (Sep 1816)‚ tartly asserted that "the thing now before us‚ is utterly destitute of value" and he defied "any man to point out a passage of poetical merit" in it.2   While derisive asperity of this sort is the common fare of most of the early reviews‚ there are‚ nevertheless‚ contemporary readers whose response

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    Global Crime

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    global crime by authorities. The global drug trade industry is a multi billion-dollar industry. Drugs are produced everywhere in the world but the bulk of drugs come from a few countries. The Golden Crescent and Golden Triangle produce most of the opium poppies that produce heroin. Cocaine comes mainly from South America. Marijuana is produced in most countries since it’s easy to grow. The heroin producing countries‚ which are known as the Golden Triangle (Burma‚ Myanmar‚ Thailand and Laos)‚ and

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    Drug Addiction in Bangladesh

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    Drug addiction is not a recent problem in Bangladesh. But it has been rising. In recent years Drug Addiction has significantly increased in Bangladesh. This agent of human devastation has spread its tentacles worldwide and also in our country. Every intelligent and humane person in the world society and international organizations such as the UN and WHO are alarmed by the present rate of addiction. Nowadays nearly ten per cent of outpatients in our hospitals are cases of drug addiction involving

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    Easternization

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    more than only ”Made In China”. Every day there is more and more people taking Chinese lessons‚ eating Asian food‚ like tea‚ one of the first things they began trading and because of the trading of tea the opium wars began because the Western people needed something to trade and they choose the opium because it is very addictive and make you want it every time more and more‚ another thing that the American people adopted from the Asian culture was studying about Confucius‚ practicing Chinese sports and

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    oilseed called poppy also known as (opium seeds) used medically to help babies calm down and sleep. It was said to be a sedative that worked miracles and was used in food‚ milk‚ as well as for fertilizing. These seeds are grown in various civilizations such as China‚ Turkey and the Neverland’s and are known to be used by motley the Jewish‚ Europeans and Indians. In just 60 days a poppy seed can grow up to 2 feet and be filled with poppy flowers full of the opium chemical which farmers are known to

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    The Taiping Revolution

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    reaction of the Chinese peasantry to the First Opium War and later the Second Opium War‚ and the Unequal Treaties following them. For two thousand years preceding the mid-nineteenth century the social structure and the mode of production in China had scarcely changed. In the mid-19th century‚ China witnessed severe internal crises and the resultant upheaval created widespread social‚ economic and political discontent. In the aftermath of the Opium Wars and the Unequal Treaty System‚ inhuman burdens

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