If you have anything of exceptional value (a family heirloom, a piece of art, jewelry, etc.), you should insure it separately. Insurers will charge extra for this coverage (something like an extra $10 on your monthly premium per $1,000 of value insured), but it pays to be covered.
The Dutch export shipments of Indian opium to China and the islands of Southeast Asia; the Dutch introduce the practice of smoking opium in a tobacco pipe to the Chinese. 1729. Chinese emperor, Yung Cheng, issues an edictprohibiting the smoking of opium and its domestic sale, except under license for use as medicine.
For hundreds of years opium cultivation has been essential, in a place where modern medicines are rare, and opium is used as a remedy for dysentery, sleeplessness, or pain from childbirth. Itâs also smoked socially. Peresia and Danglesia Kathak say that opium production is the lifeline of the communityâs survival.