Opium Wars

Addiction Opium is a drug that, when smoked, can become extremely addictive. The Chinese people suffered immensely because of this terrible drug. Opium became, at the time, the single biggest problem for China as a nation, and somewhat surprisingly, Britain played a role in this epidemic. The British East India Company grew opium in their colonies in India. The British would drink opium in bottles, kind of like medicine; they would even give it to their children to go to sleep. Consuming opium…

British, interrupted the Chinese economy by selling them opium, which ended up disrupting their economy. The Spanish, captured the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan and built in its remains Mexico City. The Jewish people, who were offered the state of Israel by The United Nations, took on the Palestinian Arabs in four separate wars. In the late 1700’s, British merchants began making profits from the Chinese by selling the Chinese opium, a drug grown in India. Silver, which was a Chinese form…

said, “Only the dead have seen the end of war.” Men have gone to war for centuries for property, for with property comes power. Imperialism, the extension of a country's power and property through conquering other lands, has brought the world into a state of constant war for power. It is evident that imperialism has had a negative effect on the course on history just by looking at the amounts of war the world has experienced. The Opium Wars and both World Wars one and two were all results of…

expensive people will sell everything they own just for a fix. A gram of heroin or cocaine cost more than a gram of gold. Drugs change the way your brain works which isn’t good. Some drugs can also change your physical appearance. The drug war is very expensive. War on drugs cost taxpayers more than 40 billion a year, 2/3 spent on enforcement, court, and prison, the other 1/3 is spent on drug education. We also spend another 20 billion spent by state and local funds on anti-drug stuff. We would…

liquor, sugar, snuff and property soon followed and provided returns to the New Government. Through the end of the century, taxes provided access to revenue for the government, bankrolled several wars and simultaneously established a level of power and a means for regulation over its commerce,…

that illegal activities are piggy-backing the legal globalization activities and enjoying the ride. Drug traffickers have found ingenious ways to push their illegal drugs around the globe better than any nation trying to administer legal drugs. The war on drugs has only seemed to overload our prisons with small time dealers and users rather than the hardened criminals creating and moving the products in a global manner. With the trade being mostly a ghost operation, it has become a favored…

“During the 2006-2007 poppy growing season, Afghanistan produced a world record opium poppy crop that yielded 8,200 MT of illicit opium—an estimated 93% of the world’s supply.” In an article from USA Today, opium addicts are interviewed and give reasons for their initial opium addiction. Some discuss the fact that opium is the only drug that effectively relieves their pain. Others comment on the guilt they feel for contributing to their children becoming addicts. Many women watch their…

The Brief History of Controlled Drugs video was a very interesting and highly detailed video. The video opened with how opium was a big seller over the counter. Opium users had their own place to interact with the drug privately. Famous Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge and he explained that it helped him to write great poetry. Napoleon Bonaparte discovered cannabis from the Asia Minors. The people of Asia Minors been smoking cannabis for centuries. Bonaparte brought the cannabis back to France for…

promotion of narcotics in the U.S which led to the extensive and uncontrolled use of medicinal and recreational drugs during that century. The U.S became a ‘dope fiend’s paradise’ because a quarter of its population had developed a dependency on either opium or morphine. Question 2 The discovery of psychoactive drugs during the early times arose from people’s curiosity. Plants that had hallucination…

“Court Rejects Sentence Process.” The Wall Street Journal [New York] 13 Jan. 2016, VOL. CCLXVII NO. 10 ed., U.S. News: A2. Print. Timothy Lee Hurst was convicted of murdering a co-worker during a robbery in 1998 and the jury voted for a death sentence. On Tuesday, January 12, 2016 the Supreme Court shut down Florida’s Death Sentence action, allowing judges to decide the criminal’s punishment instead of the jury. The punishment for crimes such as murder and terrorism is execution in over half of…