• Brunacho
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    -227 months ago

    or the mindset of living in a country that was induced into drug addiction by a “free” country before.

    • @force
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      167 months ago

      I can’t seriously believe that Chinese people didn’t abuse psychoactive substances before they discovered the joy of British opium

      • @woelkchen
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        107 months ago

        British

        Also Imperial Britain was a monarchy, not a free country. Brunacho’s comment makes zero sense.

        • @force
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          7 months ago

          To be fair just before the time of the opium wars they were relatively far along in their process of converting to a democracy.

          • @woelkchen
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            37 months ago

            they were relatively far along in their process of converting to a democracy.

            A country with an unelected House of Lords is still not a free democracy.

            • @[email protected]
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              97 months ago

              The wackiest thing is that it’s often the Lords who have stopped the Commons enacting some really authoritarian stuff!

      • @Meron35
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        37 months ago

        Chinese people enjoyed opium for centuries before the Opium wars. Opium was a legal and commonly traded item, and it was only since the 1790s that the imperial court started to worry about the effects of abuse.

        And even ~1000 years before then, Wu Shi San was a popular, but toxic psychoactive drug used by the elite in China.

        COPY - CES_WP136.pdf - https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/uploads/files/Working-Papers-Archives/CES_WP136.pdf

        Cold-Food Powder - Wikipedia - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold-Food_Powder

      • Brunacho
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        27 months ago

        they probably did, but there wasn’t an abuse epidemic before