Opium Poppy Cultivation and Heroin Processing in Southeast Asia
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Page : 48 pages
File Size : 27,20 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Heroin
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Page : 48 pages
File Size : 27,20 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Heroin
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Page : 124 pages
File Size : 49,66 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Opium poppy
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Page : 119 pages
File Size : 16,81 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Opium poppy growers
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Page : 31 pages
File Size : 21,94 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Heroin
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Page : 92 pages
File Size : 19,93 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Opium poppy
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Author : Alfred W. McCoy
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Page : 522 pages
File Size : 25,41 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Asia, Southeastern
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Page : 130 pages
File Size : 40,45 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Drug control
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Author : Tom Kramer
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Page : 35 pages
File Size : 42,47 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Drug control
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Author : Ko-lin Chin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 39,42 MB
Release : 2011-02-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 080145719X
The Golden Triangle region that joins Burma, Thailand, and Laos is one of the global centers of opiate and methamphetamine production. Opportunistic Chinese businessmen and leaders of various armed groups are largely responsible for the manufacture of these drugs. The region is defined by the apparently conflicting parallel strands of criminality and efforts at state building, a tension embodied by a group of individuals who are simultaneously local political leaders, drug entrepreneurs, and members of heavily armed militias.Ko-lin Chin, a Chinese American criminologist who was born and raised in Burma, conducted five hundred face-to-face interviews with poppy growers, drug dealers, drug users, armed group leaders, law-enforcement authorities, and other key informants in Burma, Thailand, and China. The Golden Triangle provides a lively portrait of a region in constant transition, a place where political development is intimately linked to the vagaries of the global market in illicit drugs.Chin explains the nature of opium growing, heroin and methamphetamine production, drug sales, and drug use. He also shows how government officials who live in these areas view themselves not as drug kingpins, but as people who are carrying the responsibility for local economic development on their shoulders.
Author : Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 23,9 MB
Release : 2010-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674051343
Bitter, brownish and sticky, opium - the sap of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum - has been cultivated from the earliest of times.