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- 3. • Opium is the sap from the opium poppy seed pod What is opium?
- 4. • Opium is the sap from the opium poppy seed pod • Narcotic What is opium?
- 5. • Opium is the sap from the opium poppy seed pod • Narcotic • It’s usually smoked. What is opium?
- 6. • Opium is the sap from the opium poppy seed pod • Narcotic • It’s usually smoked. • Used to make morphine, demerol, methadone What is opium?
- 7. Most opium was grown in India and Turkey and Traded by the British East India Company
- 8. China had silk, tea, and porcelain. China with its 300 million people was self-sufficient.
- 29. Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997. Macao was returned in 1999.