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They would probably be safer to just distribute the paper torn into sheets/squares. The corners and edges would probably be "hot", but for a few 100sq in pages,

by kurthr 5y ago

They would probably be safer to just distribute the paper torn into sheets/squares. The corners and edges would probably be "hot", but for a few 100sq in pages, you would expect ~3mg/sq in and 0.4mg/cm2. Then the buyer knows what they're getting and can extract it (eat, smoke, dissolve and shoot) themselves. Next print artwork on the sheets and sell them at Dead Shows! Some in China really do consider this "payback" for the opium wars. I suspect sadly it will end up rebounding in unexpected and unfortunate ways.

tatrajim 5y ago
> Some in China really do consider this "payback" for the opium wars. Considering that the US played NO role at all in either of the opium wars and donated its Boxer Rebellion reparations to help found Tsinghua University (Xi Jinping's alma mater), this false historical narrative is especially lamentable. Maybe a visit to the heritage park in Guilin honoring the US Flying Tigers in WW II is in order? https://www.flyingtigershistoricalorganization.com/museum-dedication.html https://www.flyingtigershistoricalorganization.com/museum-de...
- ssnistfajen 5y ago
  The Tsinghua University in Beijing is a very different institution after 1949. A large group of Tsinghua faculty staff and alumni relocated to Taiwan including its longest serving president, Mei Yiqi. What was left behind soon got dismantled and reorganized along with other universities, turning every university including Tsinghua into Soviet-style institutions that focused on strictly defined disciplines instead of having a wide range of faculties. Its self-proclaimed long heritage before the PRC was not promoted much until the 80's when China started to reform and open up. The endowment fund set up from Boxer Rebellion reparations now belongs to National Tsinghua University in Taiwan and so is Tsinghua's American connection.
- truffdog 5y ago
  A lot of blue blood northeastern old money got their start selling opium to China during the opium wars. The Forbes family, the Astor family, the Delano family of Delano-Roosevelt fame. The US also got a treaty after the opium wars that exempted US citizens from being tried under Chinese law, kind of like the British did.
aurizon 5y ago
Yes, The power of The British Raj https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj drove opium into China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Opium_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Opium_War Back when I was in college they sold hits of acid via paper disk cut from paper where an LSD solution had been dried, they also used blotting paper, but that was hard to get after Biro invented the ball point pen and Bic flooded the world with them and the fountain pen, quills, nibs etc, and of course blotting paper became endangered species, they then used card stock. Other methods were used. Connaught Labs had a staff flirtation with LSD as they were using it for psychiatric purposes (long before it became a listed drug) and I, as a student chemist had a summer job there in 1960 and it was passed around. Soon after that, in 1968 it became a listed drug. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide#:~:text=On%20October%2024%2C%201968%2C%20possession,made%20in%20the%20late%201980s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide#:~:....

by kurthr 5y ago

tatrajim 5y ago

> Some in China really do consider this "payback" for the opium wars. Considering that the US played NO role at all in either of the opium wars and donated its Boxer Rebellion reparations to help found Tsinghua University (Xi Jinping's alma mater), this false historical narrative is especially lamentable. Maybe a visit to the heritage park in Guilin honoring the US Flying Tigers in WW II is in order? https://www.flyingtigershistoricalorganization.com/museum-dedication.html https://www.flyingtigershistoricalorganization.com/museum-de...

ssnistfajen 5y ago
The Tsinghua University in Beijing is a very different institution after 1949. A large group of Tsinghua faculty staff and alumni relocated to Taiwan including its longest serving president, Mei Yiqi. What was left behind soon got dismantled and reorganized along with other universities, turning every university including Tsinghua into Soviet-style institutions that focused on strictly defined disciplines instead of having a wide range of faculties. Its self-proclaimed long heritage before the PRC was not promoted much until the 80's when China started to reform and open up. The endowment fund set up from Boxer Rebellion reparations now belongs to National Tsinghua University in Taiwan and so is Tsinghua's American connection.
truffdog 5y ago
A lot of blue blood northeastern old money got their start selling opium to China during the opium wars. The Forbes family, the Astor family, the Delano family of Delano-Roosevelt fame. The US also got a treaty after the opium wars that exempted US citizens from being tried under Chinese law, kind of like the British did.

aurizon 5y ago

Yes, The power of The British Raj https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj drove opium into China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Opium_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Opium_War Back when I was in college they sold hits of acid via paper disk cut from paper where an LSD solution had been dried, they also used blotting paper, but that was hard to get after Biro invented the ball point pen and Bic flooded the world with them and the fountain pen, quills, nibs etc, and of course blotting paper became endangered species, they then used card stock. Other methods were used. Connaught Labs had a staff flirtation with LSD as they were using it for psychiatric purposes (long before it became a listed drug) and I, as a student chemist had a summer job there in 1960 and it was passed around. Soon after that, in 1968 it became a listed drug. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide#:~:text=On%20October%2024%2C%201968%2C%20possession,made%20in%20the%20late%201980s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide#:~:....