The Milk of Paradise - Lucy Inglis
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At the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali, historian Lucy Inglis talks about her book on all things opium - Milk of Paradise. Opium is commodity without rival. It's renewable, easy to extract and there's an insatiable global demand.
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