Anti-Opium Reforms - A Context Dependent Construction

For each of the cases that i look at, the problems themselves differ. So for british burma is a sort of moral epidemic concerned with opium consumption as a proto form of drug addiction among the qoon native burman population. In malaa, the anxieties that guide anti opium reforms are more about an unsustainable fiscal dependency on opium tax revenue. And then in indo china, the central problem conception is that there is a dangerous reliance upon opium imports. But commonly throughout the when we tend to see anti opium reforms actually occurring is when there is an internal conception of a problem that the states actors themselves deem worth solving.

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