Mexico has done some record-setting ... opium and marijuana production eradication,

Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation and harmony. Wine robs a man of self-possession; opium greatly invigorates it.