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The USA had nothing, AFAIK, to do with the opium epidemic. That was all on the UK.
by pinkfoot 7y ago
The USA had nothing, AFAIK, to do with the opium epidemic. That was all on the UK.
- IllogicalLogic 7y agoMost of Teddy Roosevelt's wealth (the Delano fortune) came from Opium. So did the Coolidge (Thomas Jefferson's family), Sturgis, Low, Green, Forbes (John Kerry's family), & Russell family fortunes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_%26_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_%26_Company The trading roster for opium dealing in China is a who's who of who founded this country and funded ivy league schools.
- pinkfoot 7y agoI stand corrected.
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