Burma's Old Guard Clings to $8B Jade Empire

Published October 19, 2013

Burma's Old Guard Clings to B Jade Empire
But the restrictions also serve to reduce scrutiny of the industry's biggest players and its horrific social costs: the mass deaths of workers and some of the highest heroin addiction and HIV infection rates in Burma. There are also “obvious” links … Read more on The Irrawaddy News Magazine

A tour de force of narrative control
The truth is profoundly slippery, and one of the key figures, Anna Wetherell, is discounted by the men because of her profession as prostitute and her addiction to opium. Nevertheless Anna's beauty captivates most of the men in Hokitika, and she is, by … Read more on Vancouver Sun

Believers Consume Fewer Drugs Than Atheists
Karl Marx said that religion was the opium of the people. New figures now suggest that religion plays a role in preventing substance misuse. A research team led by Gerhard Gmel from Lausanne University Hospital has shown in the journal Substance Use … Read more on Science Daily (press release)

Amber has a grass addiction. – I like grass. :D.