These are some of the opium weights which were used in the past to measure out opium when buying and selling it

Learning about opium

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March 13th 2009
Before I hop over the border to Laos tomorrow morning (well, not hop so much as take a ferry since the border is the river here), I am making a stop in the northernmost part of Thailand. Yesterday I was in Chiang Saen, which is close to the infamous opium-poppy growing region at the convergence of Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), and Laos known as the Golden Triangle. From Chiang Saen it was a pleas ... read more

Asia » Thailand » Northern Thailand » Chiang Saen

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more