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alvin · 11-29-06, 01:15 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_trade

"Beginning with territorial conquest in India (in 1757), the British East India Company pursued a monopoly on opium production and export in India. This was met with varying degrees of success, but had a serious impact on the peasant cultivators (ryots) who were often coerced or offered cash advances on their crops to encourage cultivation. This was something that was not done for any other crops, save for indigo. The product was sold by the chest in auctions in Calcutta and then smuggled into China. The East India Company used the profit to purchase teas which was in high demand in Britain."

"Many large American fortunes were built in the opium trade, including those of John Jacob Astor (partially and briefly), John Kerry (from his Forbes grandfather), and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (from his Delano grandfather). Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is one of the first literary accounts of opium addiction written from the point of view of an addict, in the early 1820s. Later, Opium smoking became associated with immigrant Chinese communities around the world, with "opium dens" becoming notorious fixtures of many Chinatowns".

DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE...

alvin · 11-29-06, 01:22 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_East_India_Company

Opium trade

In the eighteenth century, opium was highly sought after by the Chinese, and so in 1773, the Company assumed the monopoly of opium trading in Bengal. Company ships were not allowed officially to carry opium to China. So the opium produced in Bengal was sold in Calcutta on condition that it be sent to China [3].

Despite the official Chinese ban on opium imports, reaffirmed in 1799, it was smuggled into China from Bengal by traders and agency houses averaging 900 tons a year. The proceeds from drug-runners at Lintin were paid into the Company’s factory at Canton and by 1825, most of the money needed to buy tea in China was raised by the opium trade. In 1838, the Chinese imposed a death penalty on opium smuggling which was then close to 1400 tons a year, and sent a new governor, Lin Zexu to curb smuggling. This finally resulted in the Opium War of 1840, eventually leading to the British seizing Hong Kong

Coconutfetus · 11-29-06, 01:31 AM

"Behind every great fortune is a great crime."

johnny861 · 11-29-06, 01:36 AM

The British Empire: The Columbian Drug Cartel of the Age of Enlightment!

alvin · 11-29-06, 01:58 AM

It's all "smoke n mirrors".

Major money to be had in the dealing of drugs...and I'm not talking about the crumbs left for the street level dealer.

11-29-06, 01:15 AM	#1 (permalink)
alvin Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: outside the status quo Posts: 3,023	And I thought DRUG DEALING was confined to the INNER CITY? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_trade "Beginning with territorial conquest in India (in 1757), the British East India Company pursued a monopoly on opium production and export in India. This was met with varying degrees of success, but had a serious impact on the peasant cultivators (ryots) who were often coerced or offered cash advances on their crops to encourage cultivation. This was something that was not done for any other crops, save for indigo. The product was sold by the chest in auctions in Calcutta and then smuggled into China. The East India Company used the profit to purchase teas which was in high demand in Britain." "Many large American fortunes were built in the opium trade, including those of John Jacob Astor (partially and briefly), John Kerry (from his Forbes grandfather), and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (from his Delano grandfather). Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is one of the first literary accounts of opium addiction written from the point of view of an addict, in the early 1820s. Later, Opium smoking became associated with immigrant Chinese communities around the world, with "opium dens" becoming notorious fixtures of many Chinatowns". DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE...

11-29-06, 01:31 AM	#3 (permalink)
Coconutfetus Street Urchin Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 2,167	"Behind every great fortune is a great crime." __________________ The Cosmic Cocks "We are travelers from the furthest regions of experience. Demons to some, Angels to others."

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11-29-06, 01:22 AM	#2 (permalink)
alvin Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: outside the status quo Posts: 3,023	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_East_India_Company Opium trade In the eighteenth century, opium was highly sought after by the Chinese, and so in 1773, the Company assumed the monopoly of opium trading in Bengal. Company ships were not allowed officially to carry opium to China. So the opium produced in Bengal was sold in Calcutta on condition that it be sent to China [3]. Despite the official Chinese ban on opium imports, reaffirmed in 1799, it was smuggled into China from Bengal by traders and agency houses averaging 900 tons a year. The proceeds from drug-runners at Lintin were paid into the Company’s factory at Canton and by 1825, most of the money needed to buy tea in China was raised by the opium trade. In 1838, the Chinese imposed a death penalty on opium smuggling which was then close to 1400 tons a year, and sent a new governor, Lin Zexu to curb smuggling. This finally resulted in the Opium War of 1840, eventually leading to the British seizing Hong Kong

11-29-06, 01:58 AM	#5 (permalink)
alvin Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: outside the status quo Posts: 3,023	It's all "smoke n mirrors". Major money to be had in the dealing of drugs...and I'm not talking about the crumbs left for the street level dealer.