All 12 Uses
opium
in
Three Cups of Tea
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- Opium, arms, and carpets were the town's lifeblood, and the men he'd met since arriving seemed as shabby and disreputable as his cheap hotel.†
Chpt 13 *opium = a powerful narcotic
- Everywhere, fields were full of red and white opium poppies, and beyond them, snowcapped mountains made the countryside seem more serene than it really was.†
Chpt 21
- "We had driven straight into a turf battle between opium smugglers," Mortenson says.†
Chpt 23
- The headlights of an approaching vehicle illuminated the berms on both sides of the road where the warring squads of opium smugglers crouched, and their fire tapered off as they took cover.†
Chpt 23
- At the peak of the opium-trafficking season, all the rooms were full, so the sleepy chokidar offered Mortenson a blanket and a berth in the hall, next to thirty other sleeping men.†
Chpt 23
- It was about the most disgusting place to sleep you could imagine, with all these seedy opium smugglers and unemployed mujahadeen burping up a storm.†
Chpt 23
- With few resources available, Faizabad's economy revolved around the opium trade.†
Chpt 23
- For all their flaws, the Taliban had harshly suppressed the production of opium.†
Chpt 23
- According to a study by Human Rights Watch, Afghanistan's opium harvest had spiked from nearly nonexistent under the Taliban to almost four thousand tons by the end of 2003.†
Chpt 23
- And those opium profits, funneled back to the warlords, as they were called in the West, or commandhans, as they were known in Afghanistan, enabled them to recruit and equip formidable private militias, making the feeble central government of Hamid Karzai increasingly irrelevant the farther you traveled from Kabul.†
Chpt 23
- Khan, like all commandhans, took a tariff from opium traffickers whose mule trains passed through his lands.†
Chpt 23
- In the bazaar, Mortenson could see that the people of Baharak, who grew, rather than trafficked, opium, lived in a subsistence economy like the Balti.†
Chpt 23
Definitions:
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(1)
(opium) a powerful drug made from a type of poppy; relieves pain and aids sleep, but highly addictive and dangerous when abused recreationally
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)