1933 Afghanistan

1933 Afghanistan
Originally uploaded by kandaharihalak

1933 - "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." (Photographs by Maynard Owen Williams - courtesy of The National Geographic Society)

Uploaded by kandaharihalak on 21 Sep 07, 4.16PM PDT.