Opium WAS legal in the US in the nineteenth century. If you want a direct comparison, try explaining why the US experience was nothing like the Chinese experience. As you make that explanation, take notes because that’s why the East India Trading Company example is completely irrelevant.
One could have to know csomething about history to understand this.
Have done so about a gazillion times. Opium was present in the US, but not widely, and it was very much regarded as a medicine and not a form of entertainment.
Once again, it was the civil war that caused widespread opium addiction, (to treat wounded soldiers on both sides) and continuing and growing problems thereafter.
As you make that explanation, take notes because that’s why the East India Trading Company example is completely irrelevant.
Doesn't sound like i'm the one that needs to be doing the note taking.