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UN drug experts say opium production has leveled off in Myanmar, but instability may trigger a rise
In recent decades, after the region’s opium production had dropped, methamphetamine in the form of tablets and crystal meth supplanted it. It’s easier to make on an industrial scale than the ...
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Elaborate opium smuggling ring unravelled
“Project Khiar to date has seized approximately 189 kilograms of opium with a street value of $13.2 million and we have also removed 44 kilograms of ephedrine.” The ephedrine can be used to ...
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Opium farming takes root in Myanmar’s war-racked landscape
PEKON, Myanmar – Scraping opium resin off a seed pod in Myanmar’s remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren by ...
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The truth about Japan’s wartime opium monopoly in Manchukuo
The relatively unknown story of wartime Japan ’ s ties with the opium trade in China is now in the public domain, courtesy of a manga series that has already sold more than 1.8 million copies in ...
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U.N. drug experts say opium production has leveled off in Myanmar, but instability may trigger a rise
In recent decades, after the region’s opium production had dropped, methamphetamine in the form of tablets and crystal meth supplanted it. It’s easier to make on an industrial scale than the ...