Nineteenth-Century Law, Literature and Opium

It is not news to suggest that the law treated drugs like opium differently in the nineteenth century compared to today. These days, opium falls within the category of psychoactive drugs, for the purposes of the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016. This is because it ‘produces a psychoactive effect in...

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Main Author: Chris Dent
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2019-11-01
Series:Open Library of Humanities
Online Access:https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/4604/