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Growing opium in India to sell to the Chinese. They objected to their citizens becoming addicts (rightly so) so the British empire and East India Trading compan
by hackerboos 11y ago
Growing opium in India to sell to the Chinese. They objected to their citizens becoming addicts (rightly so) so the British empire and East India Trading company turned their gunships on them and seized Hong Kong under the Treaty of Nanking.
The Chinese, outgunned, had to surrender the terms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Opium_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Opium_War
- pstuart 11y agoAnd the British have demonstrated how well they handle alcohol these days. Edit: meow, oh the butthurt. Binge drinking apparently is a significant problem but is tolerated because "alcohol is not a drug" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/10825449/Britains-binge-drinking-levels-are-among-the-highest-in-the-world.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/10825449/Britain...