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I see fentanyl as payback for East India Company's plans to get more tea. China plays the long game. https://museum.dea.gov/exhibits/online-exhibits/cannabis-c
by rickydroll 2y ago
I see fentanyl as payback for East India Company's plans to get more tea. China plays the long game.
https://museum.dea.gov/exhibits/online-exhibits/cannabis-coca-and-poppy-natures-addictive-plants/opium-poppy https://museum.dea.gov/exhibits/online-exhibits/cannabis-coc...
> To fund their ever-increasing desire for Chinese produced tea, Britain, through their control of the East India Company, began smuggling Indian opium to China. This resulted in a soaring addiction rate among the Chinese and led to the Opium Wars of the mid-1800s. Subsequent Chinese immigration to work on the railroads and the gold rush brought opium smoking to America.