The Queen of drug trafficker, drug lord of Singapore, Labuan and Straight Settlement, is celebrating her 90th birthday at the expense of Chinese, the drug addicts.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2016-04/20/content_24695400.htm
British Empire Funded by Opium
Still, the real narco-republic in world history isn’t the United States, Mexico, Colombia or other transit points to the artificially created drug epidemic in the United States. This dubious honor actually goes to the British Empire, as their Bengal-to-China opium business during the time of Queen Victoria grew into the world’s largest commodity trade during the 19th century. Opium accounted for almost 20 percent of the Empire’s total revenue, yet opium was just the tip of the addictive trade.
In the United States and the British Empire addictive substances were the major business of British mercantilism. For example, the original British colonies like Jamestown and Virginia were economically unfeasible before the smoking of tobacco caught on in Europe and smoking and snuff created a cash crop from America.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2012/09...f-conflict-anglo-american-and-chinesehistory/
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2016-04/20/content_24695400.htm
British Empire Funded by Opium
Still, the real narco-republic in world history isn’t the United States, Mexico, Colombia or other transit points to the artificially created drug epidemic in the United States. This dubious honor actually goes to the British Empire, as their Bengal-to-China opium business during the time of Queen Victoria grew into the world’s largest commodity trade during the 19th century. Opium accounted for almost 20 percent of the Empire’s total revenue, yet opium was just the tip of the addictive trade.
In the United States and the British Empire addictive substances were the major business of British mercantilism. For example, the original British colonies like Jamestown and Virginia were economically unfeasible before the smoking of tobacco caught on in Europe and smoking and snuff created a cash crop from America.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2012/09...f-conflict-anglo-american-and-chinesehistory/
