opium

In the years leading up to the First Opium War, a debate occurred within the Qing government over how the opium problem should be addressed, with one side arguing for its legalization (so that the state could tax it and thus give some much needed cash to the treasury) and another for harsher...

WI homelessness became fashionable? TV shows would follow: “Vagabonds of Vancouver,” “Bottle-Collectors of Boston,” “Homeless of Houston,” “Crack-Heads of Calgary,” “Denver’s Dumpster-Divers,” “Meth-Heads of Maple Ridge,” etc. TV cameramen would follow the homeless doing their nightly rounds of...