Message from @pretextos
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China war
Opium wars
east india trading company
same british corp that ran slaves
I told you, the Chinese over-produced opium and their soil got bad so they started importing it from Rangoon, Singapore and the Philipines
It was banned
Absolutely correct @!GPT
Opium was banned in china
Eventually it was yes
Before the wars
pirates were also hereos
But you're ignoring centuries of opium trade history prior to that
attacking ships too free enslaved ppl
what a bunch of jerk
When the british started exporting to China it quickly got banned
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they didnt have opium before that
Yes Pirates used to lurk in the south china sea and attempt to raid trade ships packed to the brim with opium bound for Europe and America
Opium has been around for a very very VERY long time
the international opium trade however is only about 500-600 years old, by sea at least
People were bringing black on camel 2,000 years ago through parthia
Check out the "silk road"
they found opium and cocaine in egyptian mummies noses
so
You don't hear about the chinese ships any more because the British and Portuguese hammered the fuck out of them with gunpowder and lead balls
@Seeker of Truth expensive but very precise
essentially an over-powered CRT monitor
Way more precise than a domestic drill press
Opium was used for medicine before the british
No it was used by the hookers in the whore houses millennia ago
medicine yeah right
It was mixed with drugs in like the 17 century
where do you take your "facts" from?
Opium has been around like since forever
The past 500 years however saw the birth of "globalization"
For
medicinal