To: nickcarraway
How China got rid of opiumhttp://www.sacu.org/opium.html
The people were all for it. Participation was very popular. They have suffered more than enough damage to have done it with or without the approval of any dictatorship.
12 posted on
04/24/2015 2:41:06 PM PDT by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: familyop
How China got rid of opium"Street committees" and "re-education" - that is, communism.
14 posted on
04/24/2015 2:45:41 PM PDT by
ConservingFreedom
(A government strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
To: familyop
You know it has to be bad for a culture when it is used in an expression to express evil. “Religion is the opiate of the people.”
Too bad they got it wrong, eh?
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