Opium

The British needed Chinese goods, primarily tea, but the Chinese didn't need anything from the British. That would leave a trade deficit on the British side, so they got the Chinese nation addicted to opium (unprocessed heroin) which they produced in India. When the Chinese emperor tried to ban opium, the Chinese people rebelled against him, backed by the British, which led to Opium wars.

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1839-42 and 1856-60, two wars between China and Western countries. The first was between Great Britain and China. Early in the 19th cent., British merchants began smuggling opium into China in order to balance their purchases of tea for export to Britain. In 1839, China enforced its prohibitions on the importation of opium by destroying at Guangzhou (Canton) a large quantity of opium confiscated from British merchants. Great Britain, which had been looking to end China's restrictions on foreign trade, responded by sending gunboats to attack several Chinese coastal cities. China, unable to withstand modern arms, was defeated and forced to sign the Treaty of Nanjing (1842) and the British Supplementary Treaty of the Bogue (1843). These provided that the ports of Guangzhou, Jinmen, Fuzhou, Ningbo, and Shanghai should be open to British trade and residence; in addition Hong Kong was ceded to the British. Within a few years other Western powers signed similar treaties with China and received commercial and residential privileges, and the Western domination of China's treaty ports began. In 1856 a second war broke out following an allegedly illegal Chinese search of a British-registered ship, the Arrow, in Guangzhou. British and French troops took Guangzhou and Tianjin and compelled the Chinese to accept the treaties of Tianjin (1858), to which France, Russia, and the United States were also party. China agreed to open 11 more ports, permit foreign legations in Beijing, sanction Christian missionary activity, and legalize the import of opium. China's subsequent attempt to block the entry of diplomats into Beijing as well as Britain's determination to enforce the new treaty terms led to a renewal of the war in 1859. This time the British and French occupied Beijing and burned the imperial summer palace (Yuan ming yuan). The Beijing conventions of 1860, by which China was forced to reaffirm the terms of the Treaty of Tianjin and make additional concessions, concluded the hostilities.

In opium addiction in the mid-19th century chinese people became depressed because of economic conditions and because of this reason they got more and more addicted to Opium. Thus, it increase the production of it.

Leaders on the side of the British and East India Co., during the First Opium War were Lord Palmerston, William Parker, Charles Elliot, Hugh Gough, and Henry Pottinger.

Leaders on the side of the Qing Dynasty were the Daoguang Emperor, Yishan, Yang Fang, Lin Zexu, Guan Tianpei, and Qishan.

Yes, opium was being sold to allt he engish in Europe and America because of Englands involvement in china. So ameerica wanted to stop all the tradeing because they thought it was ruenning their countrys people and so forth. So that is why. But everyone thinks we went there because of communisem.

China ceded Hongkong; and the right to prohibit the largest drug cartel; civilization has ever known, from importing their drugs into China. The East India Tea Co, sponsored by the British government, by divine rite of Rome. Imported opium poppy seeds from Turkey; cultivated them in the Kirbee pass area. These crops were then shipped into China, and the Chinese Government could do nothing about it. The residual effect still effects world opium drug trafficking. The Opium poppy is not indigenous to that area, and Afghanistan would have never, had opium to put on today's drug market. O! How the sins of yesterday, return to haunt today

The Opium War started with the British East India company selling Opium in India, when the market for Opium in India ran out the British decided to trade with China.

The British shipped Opium into Canton and then sold it to the Chinese merchants, selling it to the Chinese people. By the 1830's China had been flooded with tons of cheap Opium. In 1839 the Imperial Commissioner for Canton wanted to cut off all Opium trade with the British, his name was Lin Tse-hsu. Because the British used the money from the Opium to buy things such as tea and porcelain, which were all in great demand in Britain, the British were not happy. Despite China's warnings Britain sold the Opium illegally for a higher price. Meanwhile the British had began their renaissance because they were white they found some mexicans to help them build weirdass english houses and make tea cabinets

China was distraught and beheaded all Britons in China, those who surrendered were forced to work farms in China, as you can imagine the British were not happy about this either. However the Chinese sent a small army of junks to Britain but the British already sent a small but powerful army of modern naval fleets. The two countries met in the middle of the ocean and that was how the war started.

The British won and forced the Chinese to pay in silver, tea, porcelain and made them sign a treaty.

If you're referrring to the opium wars between China and Britain, the British bought opium from growers in India (which was under British control at the time).

The British won the first and second Opium War.

The first opium war began, in very brief words, because China wanted to control the importing of Opium from Britain, and Britain was not a fan since its largest export to China was Opium and imported tea.

There were two Opium Wars sometimes called the Anglo-Chinese war.

Both were struggles about trade rights in China. The high tarriff placed

on imported opium by the Chinese Government and the attempt by Anglo

traders to circumvent the tax resulted in the Chines siezure of about four

million pounds from the warehouses of the Traders. The Chinese burned

the opium. In the war that followed the British occupied Canton and the

1842 Treaty of Nanking gave Britain trading concessions and Hong Kong.

The French and Americans demand for equal trading rights brought on the

second Opium War which was resolved by the 1958 Treaty of Tienstin,

granting French and America to trade in China on an equal footing with

the British. It also allowed missionary entry into China and to hold and

own property within China. Most favored trading status appears to be

founded on the right to sell drugs, property rights, and the desire to

spread your own beliefs to others.

Poppy is a flower that grows up to 3 feet tall or so. It doesn't necessarily grow in the rainforest, rather farmers clear the rainforest to cultivate poppy in rural parts of the rainforest. Poppy grows on the ground, but the problem is the destruction of the rainforest that comes with growing it. Besides physically damaging the rainforest, the farmers, guerrillas, and cartel build roads that have devastating edge effects to the ecosystems.

Poppies actually would not grow well in rain forests, as they require soil that drains well and at least partial direct sun. That is why they do well in places like Afghanistan.

Warren Delano, FDR's grandfather, was an opiumtrader and his grandson signed the amendment that ended alcohol prohibition.

Oral ingestion, injection, and vaporizing (smoking)

Opium is a drug - one of the World's oldest, longest, and most widely used drugs. Also, many other drugs are derived from opium, such as morphine, heroin, and all other opiates. Opioids - meaning "opiate-shaped" or "opiate-like" - are synthetic drugs, modeled on the types of molecules found in opium.

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The Opium Wars, also known as the Anglo-Chinese Wars, were the climax of trade disputes and diplomatic difficulties between China under the Qing Dynasty and the British Empire after China sought to restrict British opium traffickers. To most Chinese, a century of humiliation began with this war, in which Westerners sought to force a deadly drug on an Asian people, and then imposed an unequal treaty that pried open their country and annexed the island that became Hong Kong. The British struck upon an ingenious way to reduce a huge trade deficit. Their merchants bribed Chinese officials to allow entry of chests of opium from Britishruled India, though its importation had long been banned by imperial decree. Imports soared, and nearly every American company followed suit, acquiring "black dirt" in Turkey or as agents for Indian producers.

Commissioner Lin Tsehsu proceeded to Canton, seized vast stocks of opium and dumped the chests in the sea. This, plus a melee in which drunken sailors killed a Chinese villager, furnished the spark for the Opium War, initiated by Lord Palmerston, the British Prime Minister, and waged with determination to obtain full compensation for the opium. The Celestial Empire was humbled, forced to open five ports to foreign traders and to permit a British colony at Hong Kong. The Opium War was no doubt the event that opened China's doors to the outside world. Before 1842, China was closed and self isolated.

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Marijuana is currently legal for recreational use in India with a government issued license.