http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CHING/OPIUM.HTM
Provides a more detailed account than the previously noted linked article, which reflects the arguments used in the British Parliament to justify the war in this preposterous statement:
“It would be a mistake to view the conflict between the two countries simply as a matter of drug control; it was instead the acting out of deep cultural conflicts between east and west.”
Right.
Bump