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	Slipknot: Opium Of The People (4 String) Bass Tab
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		but my guess is that it's something new for them, they wanted to try something new, and slipknots always been about anti-mainstream, and anti-what people expect...
		Slipknot - Opium Of The People (4 String)
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	Opium Addictions
		Some people smoke opium, yet when they take the drug they will often feel symptoms such as drowsiness, dizziness, dry mouth, increase of pulse, constipation, etc. Doctors will often prescribe opium in form of medications, although the doctor is aware that the drug is highly addictive.
		Opium at one time was discovered yet bore no purpose and later it was found to cure diseases found in women, and yet later it was discovered to cure other problems.
		Opium at one time was a safe plant that God made for man. However, after man finished with the precious plant, it turned into the devil’s drug.
	www.addictions.moneymaker6.se /opiumaddictions.html (624 words)

	Opium of the people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"Religion is the opium of the people" (translated from the German "Die Religion...
		The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness.
		For Marx, religion is something that the oppressed people cling to and delude themselves with simply because they have no idea of the real causes and solutions to their suffering.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Opium_of_the_people (476 words)

	Opium and Empire in Victorian Britain
		Although opium has been imported to Britain for hundreds of years for medicinal purposes it was not until the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that its use as a pharmaceutical panacea and exotic recreational drug became epidemic within all strata of British society.
		The huge expansion of the growing of opium in India was of course to have great implications for the availability and subsequent use of the drug by its native population.
		Opium had been used in India long before the British came to its shores, but with the imperial expansion of the traditional growing of opium into a great capitalist venture, drug addiction inevitably increased among the native population.
	www.qub.ac.uk /english/imperial/india/opium.htm (1053 words)

	RAWA.org: Afghan opium production predicted to reach new high
		Although it is clear that the opium trade has a destabilising effect in the country it is argued by some that the opium economy, because of its importance for the resource-poor, should not be wiped out precipitately or without compensation.
		However, that opium poppy cultivation became increasingly entrenched into micro-level Afghan economics and that the opium economy recently came to equal half of Afghanistan's legitimate GDP does not mean that the country is on the verge of becoming a 'narco-state'.
		Opium poppy cultivation is prevalent in areas where land holdings are small (such as where wheat cultivation alone does not provide enough for a tenant's family), where irrigation is problematic and where access to markets is especially difficult.
	www.rawa.org /opium6.htm (2021 words)

	Ethnobotanical Leaflets
		Opium has the appearance of dark brown chunks called cakes or bricks or as a powder form.
		These include the amount of opium taken, the users past drug experiences, the manner in which the drug is taken, and psychological and emotional stability of the person taking the drug (see Britannica on Alcohol and Drug Consumption).
		People ftom all races and income levels are known to use opiates, but the most problem is seen in the streets, where lower income people use the drug.
	www.siu.edu /~ebl/leaflets/opium.htm (1258 words)

	Opium Use
		Downing elucidated the action of opium in all those countries in which it is habitually consumed, and fully proved that all the arguments produced against the use of spirits applied with tenfold force against the use of opium...Dr. J.
		With opium as free and open as it was, it hard to believe that none of the rich classes were not abusing it too.
		Opium use, was not regarded as a problem, until it became apparent that the working-classes were clearly abusing the substance.
	gober.net /victorian/reports/opium.html (2298 words)

	Licit and Illicit Drugs - Chapter 6, Opium Smoking Is Outlawed
		Therefore people might become addicted either because they took opium intensively during an illness for instance in the great cholera epidemic of 1821--- or because they had vigor, leisure and money and wanted to make the best of it.
		families who accept opium smoking as part of their culture are mindful of its dangers much as we are mindful of the dangers of overindulgence in alcohol.
		Surely the nineteenth-century enemies of opium smoking did not and could not foresee that the new laws were starting this country down the dismal road from that relatively innocent "vice" to the intravenous injection of heroin--- the dominant form of illegal opiate use today; yet that was in fact the sequel.
	www.druglibrary.org /schaffer/Library/studies/cu/cu6.htm (2539 words)

	Martian Anthropologist: Karl Marx: Religion Is the Opium of the People.
		Martian Anthropologist: Karl Marx: Religion Is the Opium of the People.
		Karl Marx: Religion Is the Opium of the People.
		People are so afraid of death that their whole lives revolve around it, hence the manifestation of religion.
	martiananthropologist.blogspot.com /2005/08/karl-marx-religion-is-opium-of-people.html (6542 words)

	The Indian Economy Blog » Blog Archive » Wars, Opium, Powerful Governments and Weak Nations
		Spirituality, on the other hand, arises within people only when they are freed from a miserable existence and have the luxury to search for truth and meaning in attempt to fully comprehend their own selves.
		At some time, the people have to be distracted from their real miseries and the state pacifies (if that is the right word) the people by engaging in war with an enemy, real or imagined.
		In the case of monotheistic religions, increasing the membership and having increasing control over the members’ life is the way to power; in the case of governments, increasing the size of the government and intruding in the private and public lives of its citizens is the way to power for the leaders.
	indianeconomy.org /2005/12/10/wars-opium-powerful-governments-and-weak-nations (2985 words)

	Mano Singham's Web Journal: Opium of the people
		Most people, when they think of the Karl Marx's attitudes towards religion, remember the quote where he refers to it as "the opium of the people." This sounds quite dismissive.
		It speaks of religion as the solace of a suffering people, a mechanism for them to obtain relief from the forces that oppress them, to endure suffering, and something that enables them to extract some happiness from life.
		He also argued that Platonic truth is too hard for people to bear, and that the classical appeal to "virtue" as the object of human endeavor is unattainable.
	blog.case.edu /singham/2006/03/16/opium_of_the_people (2768 words)

	Electronic Passport to the Opium Wars
		The Chinese people were satisfied with their way of life and had little interest in the nations of the Western Hemisphere.
		The Chinese government outlawed the import of Opium because of the debilitating effects of the drug and because of the silver leaving China to pay for it.
		It is true that opium can be dangerous, but the British felt the rulers in China had no right to keep opium from their people.
	www.mrdowling.com /613-opiumwars.html (474 words)

	BBC - 16+ SOS Teacher - General Studies culture, morality, arts & humanities Religion+people
		Outline and discuss the wiew that "religion is the opium of the people".
		People were expected to go to Church and there they were told that if they were good and worshipped God they would have their reward in Heaven.
		He also believed that all people deserved to have equal opportunities to provide for their families and to be educated.
	www.bbc.co.uk /schools/16/sosteacher/general/33483.shtml (321 words)

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		Marx, in his essay entitled “Religion as the Opium of the People,” argues that religion serves only to force the lower class to become content with their position in society.
		For example, Marx believes that Christianity convinces the oppressed people that their position in society is due to punishment from God, and in Eastern religions he believes that the lower class is blamed for their own misfortune because of their misdeeds in previous lives (Fisher 18-19).
		The oppressed people of society would not be better off without religion, as Marx proposes, because religion has numerous beneficial effects that were overlooked by Marx in his essay.
	celtickane.com /school/eng_Marx.doc (1457 words)

	"The Opium of the People" by Marx
		Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions.
		By demanding the negation of private property, the proletariat merely raises to the rank of a principle of society what society has raised to the rank of its principle, what is already incorporated in it as the negative result of society without its own participation.
		By declaring the people his private property, the king merely proclaims that the private owner is king.
	www.baylor.edu /~Scott_Moore/texts/Marx_Opium.html (1294 words)

	Subject: Is Religion Desirable as the Opium of the People? Date: 4 Dec 89 21:06:15 GMT Sen
		In effect, this school of thought states that religion is desirable AS the opium of the people.
		A view related to this school of thought, that religion is desirable as the opium of the people, is the school of thought that children should be taught a religion, even if their parents don't practice it, or even believe in it.
		But to argue that some religion is desirable as the opium of the people, while evading the question of its truth -- that strikes me as rather extreme intellectual dishonesty.
	www.skepticfiles.org /atheist/relig38d.htm (1032 words)

	YCLUSA Online (Site not responding. Last check: )
		After the opium comment, Marx goes on to say that the real criticism or struggle is not against religion per se, but against "the condition which needs illusion." In other words the system of exploitation that makes religious explanations for the way things are seem more important than political explanations.
		A lot of people use religion to try to divide working people, or to convince them to sign on to a far-right agenda that is undemocratic and anti-working class, or is racist, homophobic, sexist and militaristic.
		Being agnostic, I'm not defending religion, but the claim that "most of us" have accepted that religion is in a simplistic way the "opium of the people" is to suggest that most of us haven't read why Marx called it that.
	www.yclusa.org /forum/message/60 (591 words)

	Karl Marx quotation - religion as opium of the people
		Karl Marx quotation - religion as opium of the people
		On religion as the opium of the people
		Many people, however, take this statement to be a plain and simple condemnation of religion but what Marx actually meant by saying that Religion is the Opium of the People is somewhat more subtle than this:-
	www.age-of-the-sage.org /quotations/marx_opium_people.html (444 words)

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		Partly, this was due to opium imported from British India, which amounted to nearly 17000 chest (1215 tons) per year in 1830 compared with 200 chests (14 tons) before 1773 and with 4000 chests (285 tons) by 1790.
		To a great extend, the increase in the number of opium addicts during the first half of the 19th century could be attributed to the expansion of Chinese domestic poppy cultivation.
		This opium is usually sold to Vietnamese army officers whose troops are stationed in the area.
	www.hmongnet.org /hmong-au/opium.htm (1746 words)

	Erowid Opiates Vault : Opium Timeline
		Opium is cultivated, eaten, and drunk by all classes as a household remedy; it is used by rulers as an indulgence, and given to soldiers to increase their courage.
		The medicinal use of pure opium is fully established; native opium is manufactured, but recreational use is still limited.
		Warren Hastings, the first governor general of India, recognizes that opium is harmful and at first opposes increasing production; later he encoiurages the the control of opium by the company hoping that by monopolizing and limiting the supply he will discourage its consumption.
	www.erowid.org /chemicals/opiates/opiates_timeline.php3 (1453 words)

	Terror Warnings: The Opium of the People (Site not responding. Last check: )
		If the terrorists were going to attack a port and devastate the maritime shipping industry in the region, widespread destruction of New York's enormous port system would probably have been an easier target, and certainly wouldn't have required as much advanced training as learning to fly jumbo jets.
		Instead the targets were office buildings, places where people just go to work and don't make any political statements or world policies.
		New Orleans FBI agent Ken Kaiser has stated that during this high threat level, "if people want to call, there are people here to answer the phone and talk to them." Makes you wonder what happens the rest of the time when people want to call.
	members.cox.net /medicman65/Fitzmorris/terrorism.htm (1311 words)

	frontline: the opium kings: Opium Throughout History \| PBS
		The Dutch export shipments of Indian opium to China and the islands of Southeast Asia; the Dutch introduce the practice of smoking opium in a tobacco pipe to the Chinese.
		The British dependence on opium for medicinal and recreational use reaches an all time high as 22,000 pounds of opium is imported from Turkey and India.
		In San Francisco, smoking opium in the city limits is banned and is confined to neighboring Chinatowns and their opium dens.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/heroin/etc/history.html (2557 words)

	Religion - Opium Of The People?
		Marx described religion as the opium of the people.
		In so doing Marx sought to indicate that religion was an opiate that deadened the senses of the people to the crass exploitation to which they were subjected by the ruling classes of society.
		Marx had predicted that the expropriation of surplus value by the bourgeoisie as a result of their control of the means of production would lead to a sharpening of contradictions and thereby result in a revolution in which the working class will rise up against their rulers.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/features/artikel.php?ID=29411 (1506 words)

	Ch'ing China: The Opium Wars
		His express purpose was to cut off the opium trade at its source by rooting out corrupt officials and cracking down on British trade in the drug.
		He destroyed all the existing stores of opium and, victorious in his war against opium, he composed a letter to Queen Victoria of England requesting that the British cease all opium trade.
		The most ignominious of the provisions in these treaties was the complete legalization of opium and the humiliating provision that allowed for the free and unrestricted propagation of Christianity in all regions of China.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/CHING/OPIUM.HTM (1237 words)

	Ancient Days :: Religion: An "Opiate of the People"? :: by David Livingston
		How much the people believe their leaders is hard to determine, but it appears that a combination of devotion to their country and faith in the ultimate humanitarian claims of communism make the great majority of Russian people loyal supporters of the Soviet State.
		He will worship other people, or his country, or institutions, or money, or power or fame -- and all of these are different ways of worshipping himself.
		People may think they are worshipping God, while they are only worshipping an idea of God they themselves imagined.
	www.ancientdays.net /opiate.htm (3441 words)

	Slipknot - Vol 3: (The Subliminal Verses) - NuEra Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: )
		People are saying that everyones just mad because theres no cussing or all they like is metal and dont see why all we want is brutal and not art, well slipknot made themselves out to be brutal on the first albums!
		People who think a bands only cool if they make your ear drums bleed can say that they've sold out and thats fine because they obviously don't know about music and furthermore it seems that most of them haven't heard the whole album.
		Alot of people have hatred for some of the songs on the album and their "soft" side.
	nuera.dinonet.net /Music/Details/B0001NBMBC.htm (6764 words)

	David Rose - Opium of the people \| Focus \| The Observer
		In 1989 about 4,000 people were convicted of drug dealing or possession with intent to supply; 10 years later the total was more than 15,000.
		Across great swaths of the country, where hard drugs and junkies were rarely sighted a decade ago, heroin and cocaine, often smoked as crack, are becoming the opium of the people.
		The Class A consumption model was developed as a result of the 10-year drug strategy unveiled by Keith Hellawell, the former government 'drugs tsar', in 1998, which set the ambitious targets of reducing cocaine and heroin use by 25 per cent by 2003 and by 50 per cent by 2008.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /focus/story/0,6903,518495,00.html (3069 words)

	Erowid Opiates Vault : "Red Rock Opium" Myth #1
		We attained a 20mg sample of the reddish powder which was sold as ground "Red Rock Opium" from a trusted individual who had been smoking the material regularly for approximately a year, had previously had opportunities to smoke fl tar opium, and believed the material to be a weaker form of opium.
		The suggestion of opium, the power of the imagination, and the effect of physically taking smoke into the lungs could be enough for many people to experience noticeable effects.
		Saying the effects are attributable to the Placebo Effect is not in any way to say people don't experience effects, but merely to say that the effects are shaped primarily by expectation and endogenous processes triggered by the smoke rather than directly caused by a chemical in the smoke itself.
	www.erowid.org /chemicals/opiates/opiates_myth1.shtml (1406 words)

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