Some of your ideas and characterizations are wrong. In fact, pretty much everything you wrote is wrong.
Heroin, cocaine and morphine were not “harder stuff” and weren’t designed for export to China. They were available off the shelf pretty much everywhere in Europe, North America and the rest of the world.
Cocaine didn’t become a controlled drug in the U.S. until 1914, 1920 in the U.K.
Your ideas on heroin are wholesale wrong, it was first synthesized in 1874, it wasn’t commercialized until 1895. It was banned in 1924 in the U.S. but was available off the shelf until then. 1920 in the U.K.
Opium, much the same as the other two, not banned until the 1920s anywhere.
You are conflating a bunch of ideas without proof, drugs weren’t used to control colonial possessions, they were normal every day consumer items everywhere in the West too.
Furthermore, your ideas on the U.S. fighting to stop the drug trade and the U.K. stalling is also wrong, in most cases, the U.K. banned drugs before the U.S. did. An even worse comparison to suggest when you know more on the subject. The U.K. was a signatory to The Hague convention on opium of 1912 which restricted the sale and consumption of opium, including in their trade with other nations and in the colonies, the U.S. was not.
Your ideas on drugs in the golden triangle being because of the French is preposterous. The Golden Triangle appeared because the communist Chinese outlawed the domestic opium trade in southern China, the growers and dealers shifted south in the 1950s following action by the Chinese.
Your ideas on Japan are equally wrong. The Japanese didn’t “flood” colonial India with cocaine, that’s just plain preposterous. Nor did the Japanese play a major part in the Chinese opium trade, you are either reading the wrong material or you aren’t reading well. The Japanese made a fortune from the drug trade in Taiwan after they acquired it with Shimonoseki.
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Some of your ideas and characterizations are wrong. In fact, pretty much everything you wrote is wrong.
Heroin, cocaine and morphine were not “harder stuff” and weren’t designed for export to China. They were available off the shelf pretty much everywhere in Europe, North America and the rest of the world.
Cocaine didn’t become a controlled drug in the U.S. until 1914, 1920 in the U.K.
Your ideas on heroin are wholesale wrong, it was first synthesized in 1874, it wasn’t commercialized until 1895. It was banned in 1924 in the U.S. but was available off the shelf until then. 1920 in the U.K.
Opium, much the same as the other two, not banned until the 1920s anywhere.
You are conflating a bunch of ideas without proof, drugs weren’t used to control colonial possessions, they were normal every day consumer items everywhere in the West too.
Furthermore, your ideas on the U.S. fighting to stop the drug trade and the U.K. stalling is also wrong, in most cases, the U.K. banned drugs before the U.S. did. An even worse comparison to suggest when you know more on the subject. The U.K. was a signatory to The Hague convention on opium of 1912 which restricted the sale and consumption of opium, including in their trade with other nations and in the colonies, the U.S. was not.
Your ideas on drugs in the golden triangle being because of the French is preposterous. The Golden Triangle appeared because the communist Chinese outlawed the domestic opium trade in southern China, the growers and dealers shifted south in the 1950s following action by the Chinese.
Your ideas on Japan are equally wrong. The Japanese didn’t “flood” colonial India with cocaine, that’s just plain preposterous. Nor did the Japanese play a major part in the Chinese opium trade, you are either reading the wrong material or you aren’t reading well. The Japanese made a fortune from the drug trade in Taiwan after they acquired it with Shimonoseki.