But the pipe-puffing, opium-dabbling detective and his note-taking sidekick share the spotlight here with a very moody third character, the city of London itself.
Candidate B: He has been fired by his employers twice in the past and often gets up until noon every day. He was once addicted to opium in college and drinks a large quart of whiskey every dusk.
The use of opium still prevails .
Helmand is strategic, lying along the Pakistan border, where the illicit opium trade flourishes and fighters and weapons move easily across the porous border.
Captain Charles Elliot, RN, the British Government's representative as Superintendent of Trade, was shut up with the rest and authorised the surrender of 20283 chests of opium after a siege of six weeks.
It's illegal to sell opium in our country.
Originally a Western designation applied to the region because of its wealth in gems, lumber and, above all, opium, the name has stuck and is today widely accepted.
Every year on June 3, the commemoration date of Lin Zexu's burning of opium stocks in Humen beach, Guangdong Province in 1839, and on June 26, the International Day Against Illicit Drug Trafficking and Abuse, local governments organize large-scale activities to publicize the dangers of narcotics.
A former WFP representative in Vientiane, Christa Rader, concludes that massive development programmes will be needed to help former opium-growers find other ways of making ends meet.
In the museum I learned why so many regard Khun Sa as a freedom fighter rather than an opium warlord.
Publicity of prohibition of opium is so shocking that attracts many visitors this time.
The Monopoly Bureau regulated weights and measures and oversaw the production and marketing of salt, camphor, opium, matches, liquor, tobacco, and other products.
Quite a number of venerable fathers of officers in the revolutionary army, old men who were opium-addicts and inseparable from their pipes, have been disarmed by the "emperors" (as the peasants are called derisively by the evil gentry).
In Helmand, and elsewhere in the south, the illegal opium trade—which the UN estimated to be worth $3.4 billion at export last year, or 33% of GDP—has also been incendiary.
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