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Long Sleek Brass Moroccan Opium Pipe - 10-inch long |
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Code: ga5367
Price: $25.99
Shipping Weight: 128.00 grammes
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This pipe measures a full 10-inches long x 1/4-inch largest stem diameter. This pipe actually works! I brought them from the wild square in Marrakech. See my blog about the trip here.
Two-hundred years ago Britain started selling the Chinese opium from British India to balance London trade deficit of Chinese tea and silks. China didn't like foreigners breaking their laws and causing widespread drug addiction. The destruction of 20,000 chests of opium in Guangzhou resulted, after British aggression, in Hong Kong becoming a crown colony
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