Power shifted from remote to high-end smugglers and opium traders.

He asserted that he supported his Shan insurgent army not by growing and harvesting opium, but by taxing opium traders in his territory.

While I doubt the opium traders who gave rise to the colony were motivated by altruism of any sort, it certainly was not for "King."

China was defeated and the war ended with the Treaty of Nanking, which protected foreign opium traders from Chinese law.

Landowners and opium traders have often made poppy cultivation, which is far more labor-intensive than growing wheat, a condition of access to land and credit.

American opium traders and merchant bankers such as the Russell, Perkins and Forbes families would soon join the trade.

By a curious sleight of mind, the opium traders persuaded the British Government that it was unreasonable to destroy the goods that they intended to smuggle into China.

The British Navy arrived during the First Opium War to protect the opium traders.

In the original script, a British opium trader named Denton passed the time during the voyage by shooting sea gulls with his daughter.

The respect shown by other foreign opium traders to Jardine before his departure can be best illustrated in the following passage from a book by William C. Hunter.