Message from @pretextos
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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
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
2 millennia ago they couldnt sail to europe
Yes, and that's clearly not a cannon
^
No they didn't but they traded with Parthia via camel back, Parthia traded with India and Persia, Persia traded with Armenia, Armenia traded with Rome.
If you're trying to tell me Opium DID NOT EXIST in Europe 2 millennia ago, you are sorely mistaken
And as for "medicinal purposes" explain that to the police
I didnt say that
You just posted an article saiyng it was for medicinal purposes
You said cannons existed a millennia ago. That's 1 000 years