Remember how china dealt with their opioid crisis in the 19th century? They sought to stop it and just couldn't because europeans + usa was like "no it makes us

Remember how china dealt with their opioid crisis in the 19th century? They sought to stop it and just couldn't because europeans + usa was like "no it makes us tons of money!" Now the only difference between the US and the Qing is the US allowed its own citizens to engage in it's distribution and it didn't extrajudicially execute addicts.