Robert Trout Quotes About Opium

• The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

  Robert Trout

  India, Use, Ugly

• Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.

  Robert Trout

  Drug, Use, Confucianism

• Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

  Robert Trout

  Medicine, Addiction, Chinese

• Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.

  Robert Trout

  Chinese, Enemy, Poison

• The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.

  Robert Trout

  India, East, Monopoly

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