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May 29, 2004
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Afghanistan
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1933
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Maynard Owen Williams
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"Hand workers gather poppy sap in the plain of the Hari River: Although the narcotic has been produced in America and Europe, the cost of collecting the juice there is prohibitive. As medicine it spread across Asia with Islam, but by 1729 the Emperor Yung Cheng had prohibited the smoking of it. Seizure and burning of $10,000,000 worth of it by the Chinese at Canton brought on the Opium War. Few Afghanistan natives are addicts of the pipe, and Turkey is as prominent in the control of the drug as in the culture of the plant."
—From "Afghanistan Makes Haste Slowly," December 1933,
National Geographic magazine
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