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Published on Nov 18, 2015
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What is Opium?
a reddish-brown heavy-scented addictive drug prepared from the juice of the opium poppy
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Opium in Victoria
- 13 opium factories in city
- Lots of stores sold it in tins, like you would buy cigarettes now.
- Opium dens were found throughout Chinatown.
- People smoked in the opium dens
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Who used it?
- It was considered mostly a Chinese vice
- Non-Chinese used it too though
- Newspapers reported all types of people in Opium dens
- Including women and teenagers
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As a Medicine
- Also used in some western medicine
- Laudanum (opium and alcohol)
- Soothe pain or help to sleep
- People that used it as medicine became addicted without ever going to a den
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Laws around Opium
- Import duties on raw opium were implemented by Government
- Annual license fees
- 1908 Opium Act was passed
- 1911 Opium and Narcotic Drug Act
- Controlled drug and substances act is the current law governing.
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