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1993 Army of opium king Khun Sa kills 60 in NE Burma
1933 Wilson Mizner, playwright, entrepreneur, raconteur, wrote, 'The Deep Purple', 'The Greyhound', opium addict, boxing manager, hotel manager, managed restaurant The Brown Derby, with brother, Addison Mizner, dies 1909 1st federal legislation prohibiting narcotics (opium) 1906 China prohibits opium trade 1904 Netherlands Indies colony begins opium production 1876 Wilson Mizner, born in Benicia, California, playwright, entrepreneur, raconteur, wrote, 'The Deep Purple', 'The Greyhound', opium addict, boxing manager, hotel manager, managed restaurant The Brown Derby, with brother, Addison Mizner 1842 Great Britain and China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war 1839 1st opium war - 2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks 1832 Opium exempted from federal tariff duty 1827 Dutch Trade Company NHM gets opium monopoly on Java 1826 Dutch Business Me gets monopoly on opium trade in Java/Madura 1785 Thomas De Quincey, Eng, writer, Confessions of English Opium Eater |
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