Sentences with phrase «in opium»

Xiong has been charged with manufacturing a Schedule II drug, and with trafficking in opium, both of which are felonies.

The exhibition also includes a historical section curated by Qu Chang, which presents materials related to Hong Kong's early history as a major shipping port and its role in the opium trade.

The wall - eyed girl in George Tooker's «Girl in the Window» (c. 1978) vacantly stares at the viewer, as if she were a drowning in an opium haze.

An art - house crime thriller to be directed by Daniel Grove, it features Safai as Iran - Iraq War veteran caught between the Iranian and Russian mafia in Los Angeles, and is described as «Drive meets Taxi Driver set in the opium underworld of Tehrangeles.»

View image Final shot, «McCabe & Mrs. Miller» (Robert Altman, 1971): The camera moves in on Mrs. Miller (Julie Christie), in an opium den while snow drifts outside.

These are the same painkillers found in opium and heroin.

Just as the active compound in opium, morphine, led to the discovery of the endogenous morphine or endorphin system in the brain, research investigating the active compound in cannabis, THC, led to the discovery of the brain's endocannabinoid system.

Stanford University bioengineers have figured out a way to make noscapine, a non-narcotic cough suppressant that occurs naturally in opium poppies, in brewer's yeast.

Then Scoville gets down to the real nitty - gritty: «Moreover, the pharmacist should remember that such conditions as are found in opium or cocaine habitues (not to say drunkards), often originate in the use of a prescription containing one of these drugs in some form, originally prescribed for a legitimate purpose, but renewed from time to time until the habit is established.»

Think of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes seeking enlightenment in an opium trance; of Dorothy Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey meditating on a folio of Dante; or Agatha Christie's quiet Miss Marple hearing confessions at the tea table.

On the other hand, European victory in the Opium Wars meant greater opportunity for spreading the Gospel.

Not exact matches

Recent research from the DEA indicates that the cartels are now producing white - powder heroin from opium cultivated in Mexico, which could allow them to wrest control of the production process away from South Americans, target new customers, and keep more of the profits from heroin sales.

And it's likely that the Sinaloa cartel is driving much of that production: In 2014, it is believed that the production of opium increased 50 % in Mexico, and in Guerrero state, a hotbed for heroin production, farmers and officials told The New York Times that the trade is controlled by the Sinaloa cartel — whose opium and marijuana fields in the country reportedly cover 23,000 miles, an area larger than Costa RicIn 2014, it is believed that the production of opium increased 50 % in Mexico, and in Guerrero state, a hotbed for heroin production, farmers and officials told The New York Times that the trade is controlled by the Sinaloa cartel — whose opium and marijuana fields in the country reportedly cover 23,000 miles, an area larger than Costa Ricin Mexico, and in Guerrero state, a hotbed for heroin production, farmers and officials told The New York Times that the trade is controlled by the Sinaloa cartel — whose opium and marijuana fields in the country reportedly cover 23,000 miles, an area larger than Costa Ricin Guerrero state, a hotbed for heroin production, farmers and officials told The New York Times that the trade is controlled by the Sinaloa cartel — whose opium and marijuana fields in the country reportedly cover 23,000 miles, an area larger than Costa Ricin the country reportedly cover 23,000 miles, an area larger than Costa Rica.

On Wednesday, ex-President Vicente Fox said Mexico must consider legalizing opium poppies, while the Supreme Court made a second ruling in favor of recreational marijuana use after a landmark decision in 2015.

Even after 15 years of occupation, opium cultivation in the country has risen, going up 10 % in 2016, according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.

He was also briefly dabbled in smuggling opium to China via his American Fur Company ships — even though China banned the drug about two decades earlier.

«A large part of the violence has taken place in this part of the country... is generated by the production of opium poppies,» Roberto Campa, the deputy interior minister for human rights, told AFP in February.

The Mexican military seized 60 kilograms (132 pounds) of opium poppies in 2000, according to AFP.

Mexican authorities destroyed almost 30,000 acres of poppies in the first half of 2015, after seizing 570 pounds of opium paste in 2014, a 42 % increase over 2013 (though, as Hope notes, «seizures declined close to 90 %» in 2013).

The treaty, which is still in effect, requires all countries part of the treaty to «prevent and combat» drugs and drug addicts and to enforce punishment against the unauthorized cultivation, production or possession of opium, coca (and its derivative cocaine), marijuana and other illegal substances.

In fact, communism which was a political movement based on controlling masses banned religion based on their belief that religion was «the opium of the people.»

The «Bible» was written by a bunch of hermit priests sitting locked away in some monastery high on herbs, mushrooms, and / or opium writing down what the crooked Popes in Rome wanted them to write.

That is why, in the twentieth century, powerful opiates and opioids (an opioid is a synthetic drug that mimics opium) were largely taboo — confined to patients with serious cancers, and often to end - of - life care.

Peace was won with a lopsided treaty that infuriated the Chinese, especially in the context of the concessions already imposed after the nineteenth century's Opium Wars.

In the Western world, however, opium has become a narcotic of mere escape, usually used by the rich or those who have abandoned life altogether in order to experience the druIn the Western world, however, opium has become a narcotic of mere escape, usually used by the rich or those who have abandoned life altogether in order to experience the druin order to experience the drug.

And the conflict can be resolved, not in terms of the love of Christ and his promise (these, of course, are the opium of the people), but in terms of collectivity, economics, institutions.

Religion as belief in God is an opium of the people diverting man's energies from the needful tasks of this world to an illusory heaven above; it is a projection of man's inner insecurities, and consequently must be annihilated if man must be fully himself.

It can be called «pie in the sky,» the «opium of the people,» and doubtless it has been used as an anodyne for much preventable human suffering and exploitation.

It is somewhat ironic that the fundamentalist Taliban was doing its best to stamp out the production of opium in Afghanistan, but their defeat by American forces has allowed the opium trade once again to flourish.

If Christianity be rightly understood and if Christians understand themselves correctly, things are exactly the opposite of what most Christians and non-Christians imagine: hope in the absolute future of God who is himself the eschatological salvation does not justify a fossilized conservatism which anxiously prefers the safe present to an unknown future; it is not a tranquillizing «opium for the people» in present sorrow; it is, on the contrary, the authoritative call to an ever - renewed, confident exodus from the present into the future, even in this world.

Opium, like its modern equivalent heroin, produced a temporary pleasure that ends in nausea and self destruction.

So Marx saw a parallel between the way the British and French used guns to force opium on the Chinese people in the mid-nineteenth century and the way the Christian church used religion to deaden the social awareness of the working people.

Bishop Paulose concludes this discussion, «In this way we respond to Marx's critique of religion that Christianity is not the opium of the people but a way of life in which the Christian participates in Jesus» «being there for others», for the total humanization of humanity.&raquIn this way we respond to Marx's critique of religion that Christianity is not the opium of the people but a way of life in which the Christian participates in Jesus» «being there for others», for the total humanization of humanity.&raquin which the Christian participates in Jesus» «being there for others», for the total humanization of humanity.&raquin Jesus» «being there for others», for the total humanization of humanity.»

Miłosz writes: «A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death, the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.

Those extremist groups folks over there are nuttier than a snicker bar or nuttier that someone on opium in Afghanistan..

(The earliest written history of humanity's romance with the opium poppy is found in the writings of the Sumerians dating back to approximately 3300 B.C.)

They are creatures who — in their grudge against the traditional «opium of the people» — can not bear the music of the spheres.

Who let me just say, were very much on some good drugs, did you know back in those days opium was a way for them to get high, well they did nt call it this but you can do the research yourself.

Marx saw religion as a species of fantasizing, an «opium,» foisted by the ruling classes on the proletariat in order that the latter would not be able to identify its oppressors.

Marxism sneers at religion as an «opium» devised by the wealthy to keep the poor meek and content in their misery.

«8 It gives only illusory satisfaction to the oppressed people, and it is in this sense Marx regards religion as opium of the people.

Laudanum (opium dissolved in alcohol) became an addiction.

Primary among these «relationships» is the one between the two men Miss Mattie becomes engaged with in her effort to bring her father's murderer to justice; the «marshall,» Rooster Cogburn, a debouched man, given to tobacco, liquor, and the occasional opium pipe, and the young, ebullient, but rather efficacious Sharp's rifleman, the Texas Ranger.

He described religion, in a famous phrase, as «the opium of the people».14 His deterministic view of history had no place for God as Lord of history.

you know only cover what they get at the local herbals shop, because my faith is pretty anti synthetics in medicine, i mean its like so your broke you leg and want some Heroin derivative for it nope here is an opium salve close as your going to get, oh that's illegal and no insurance covers it, to bad, will power.

Although the term «Golden Triangle» often refers to opium production, in this case it means exotic curries

This year's competition took place in Chinatown's Opium Cocktail and Dim Sum Parlour located in central London.

Also in India, a decoction of chile pods with opium and asafoetida was used as a cure for cholera, and tincture of Capsicum was used against malarial fevers, although we found no connection with quinine with that usage.

Ford's technique worked and the image has since become synonymous with the house, and Opium — which was first launched in 1977 — remains one of YSL's best - known scents.

Chatting during the boat cruise (from left), Brandon Barnholt of KeHE, a leading distributor of natural & organic, specialty and fresh products; Kim Jung, a co-founder of Rumi Spice, which produces saffron products and provides Afghan farmers with an alternative to growing opium poppies; Bill Weiland, CEO of Presence Marketing, who since the early 1990s has been a pioneering marketer and investor in the Good Food sector (that is a Chicago Cubs hat he is wearing); and Chef Paul Virant.