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Latest comment: 4 months ago by Jbernick98 in topic History of Opium in Mexico / US relations
Former good articleOpium was one of the Natural sciences good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
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September 26, 2007Good article nomineeListed
April 23, 2010Good article reassessmentDelisted
Current status: Delisted good article

Price

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It's clear from this UN document that prices for opium, retail and wholesale, vary widely depending on location and circumstances. The current wholesale price of $3k per kilo isn't even validated by the cited source - the source says $800. I am going to remove these fields given how misleading it is to give a single figure for a commodity that can vary so wildly. PMC (talk) 21:20, 20 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

Wiki Education assignment: Ecstasy A Global History of the Search for Transcendence

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 31 March 2025 and 7 June 2025. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Sean.Bake (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Sean.Bake (talk) 23:26, 29 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

Thebaine is not analgesic

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thebaine is not analgesic, but this wording seems to imply that it is: "The latex also contains the closely related opiates codeine and thebaine, and non-analgesic alkaloids such as papaverine and noscapine." 68.160.147.228 (talk) 14:23, 20 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

Separate

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Separate Opium usage from Opium pharmacology

need history of Opium usage to be chronological

Piñanana (talk) 05:57, 4 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

History of Opium in Mexico / US relations

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Wanted to highlight an outstanding issue in this article. In the introduction section, there is a note about a popular folk description of how the US asked Mexico to begin domestic production of Poppy for WWII. While this is a disputed tale, there is a plethora of scholarly research that states the growth of Poppy farming for recreational and illicit use started several decades earlier due to the influx of Chinese Immigrants in the railroad networks of northern/northwest Mexico.

See https://jied.lse.ac.uk/articles/10.31389/jied.113 for more details.

Will try to gradually edit and add missing cites/ attributions to this article over next few weeks.

Thx! Jbernick98 (talk) 05:56, 30 March 2026 (UTC)Reply