Around 2 a.m. on Monday, December 6, 1875, a "posse of police" led by Captain William Douglass descended on 609 Dupont Street in San Francisco. The cops arrested Fannie Whitmore, Cora Martinez, James ...

AT the Eighteenth Session of the League of Nations Advisory Committee on Opium, held in May 1934, the American representative, Mr. Stuart J. Fuller, drew attention to the dangerous situation which has ...

Arthur Symons (1865–1945) occupies a curious place in English literature: a decadent who lived until the 1940s, a poet and playwright who regularly published in the Yellow Book and other fin-de-siècle ...

Police confiscated a “gorgeously colored opium smoking jacket” in a hotel room downtown. They also confiscated an opium pipe and some “dope,” but the jacket was the most spectacular haul. “The jacket ...

(AP) One Halloween night, in a blacked-out bedroom in Bangkok’s Chinatown, Steven Martin went into physical and mental free fall. High fever oscillated with shivering cold, gut-wrenching stomach pains ...

You might remember a popular children's book called "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie." It warns about the seemingly endless string of dangers that can be unleashed with a single gesture.