1931: The Star Spangled Banner officially becomes the US national anthem. On the same day, Cab Calloway records “Minnie The Moocher”, jazz’s first million seller. 1934: Gangster John Dillinger breaks ...

For the Greatest Interviews series, we revisit one reluctant writer’s absorbing 1968 meeting with another equally reluctant ...

If you’re like me, you probably spend most of the year dreaming about all the designer perfumes you want to add to your collection - Giorgio Armani’s Si, YSL’s Black Opium, and the list goes on.

Newkirk has been charged with possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, and trafficking in opium or heroin. He is currently being held at the New Hanover County Detention Center ...

In 1839, Lin was the Qing dynasty official who confronted the British and their illegal opium trade that pushed the substance on Chinese users; he confiscated 20,000 chests of the drug and cast ...

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The first real attempt to regulate drugs in the U.S. occurred in 1890, when, amid rampant drug abuse, Congress enacted a law taxing morphine and opium. In the years that followed, cocaine use ...

The report highlights: One of the most egregious examples of USAID’s mismanagement is its role in Afghanistan’s opium trade. The agency spent hundreds of millions of dollars on irrigation canals, ...

OCCASIONAL opium eater and visionary poet William Blake once wrote, “What is now proved was once only imagined.” However, an Abergavenny man has taken things one step further and made the audacious ...