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Updated: June 11, 2025

In short, the opium-smoker, instead of being a sort of "good fellow with human weaknessess" and with possibilities, of course, of going utterly to wreck has become an object of contempt, a bad citizen. The earnestness of the people has been strikingly illustrated in the great financial sacrifices made by farmers and landowners in sections where the opium poppy was formerly grown.

Clarence Hamilton Poe - Where Half The World Is Waking Up : The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions