Opium heating on fire


Visitors of Longwa can easily find men smoking opium in the Angh's house. The Angh is the hereditary chief, or the king and rules over 75 villages, some of which are in Burma. Mon District, Nagaland, India The Konyak suffer from an opium addiction that began with the Raj: they boil and smoke opium, sucking from bamboo pipes in their longhouses along the porous border with Myanmar, one of the world’s top opium producers.


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Location: Nagaland, India
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