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China is virtually drug free? In that case, Wikipedia could use your help cleaning up this and many related articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_dru

• jernfrost 11y ago
  > how China became drug free after Britain made China into the biggest dope user through the Opium wars. I referring to the period following the opium ban. I believe this was the 50s, not the present day. We are also comparing to an insanely high level were the claims was that 90% of inhabitants of certain provinces were users.
  • alvarosm 11y ago
    If you're referring to the 1850s that's simply false: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_opium_in_China#/media/File:Opium_imports_into_China_1650-1880_EN.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_opium_in_China#/med... If you're referring to the decades since the 1950s, under a communist regime the Chinese obviously had better things to worry about (like surviving, finding a meal or looking commie enough not to be singled out by their own children and 're-educated' in some hellish camp).