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

Not in china

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpHYBz7ToII

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

purposes

Shut the fuck up, you don't know what raging smack heads are even like

They are drug addicts

You're lost buddy

You just said it wasn't for medical purposes and then you posted an article that says it's for medical purposes

We used to grow Opium here in Cyprus 3 millennia ago

China however was at one time able to produce massive quantities of it and the European ships could carry large quantities long distances and weren't sunk to the bottom of the sea.

Because they had cannons

Incredible

Oh they had cannons "millenia ago" ?

No 2 millennia ago they would have had the ballista