"When Opium Was Cheaper than Whiskey..."
"These [opium] bottles, dating to the late 1800s and found in the remains of a small mining town several hundred miles north of Vancouver, are a silent testament to the end of an era, when Great Britain waged a "wicked" drug war "for the lucre of gain," opium was cheaper than whiskey, babies where "quieted" to death, and a lonely miner might have traded his last, hard-won flakes of gold for a few minutes of "heavenly bliss," only to awaken more lost and lonely with the dawn."
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