>>1460421>THE ONLY REASON DRUG ADDICTION IS *AS BIG OF A PROBLEM AS IT IS* IS BECAUSE ITS ILLEGALthere i fixed it.. you happy? you pedantic bootlicking prick?
notice how opium was only *as bad as it was* in china because they made it ilegal to fuck wit the british.. before that you can see that the consumption was actually lower and caused far less societal problems
>In 1797 the East India Company further tightened its grip on the opium trade by enforcing direct trade between opium farmers and the British, and ending the role of Bengali purchasing agents. British exports of opium to China grew from an estimated 15 long tons (15,000 kg) in 1730 to 75 long tons (76,000 kg) in 1773 shipped in over two thousand chests.[17] The Qing dynasty Jiaqing Emperor issued an imperial decree banning imports of the drug in 1799. By 1804 the trade deficit with China had turned into a surplus, leading to seven million silver dollars going to India between 1806 and 1809. Also notice how Kratom, which is (almost) perfectly legal in America, causes hardly any social or financial or productivity problem in its users, and has been attributed to many people becoming functional after having long stints of self destructive learned abuse (as prohibition tends to reinforce self destructiveness instead of healthy moderation) of traditional opiates like oxy or heroin.
