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The 15% estimate is based on a much more modern accounting than something dredged up in China from the mid 1800s.

Then of course you can provide this modern source.

I have no need to provide you any information at all. It's all freely available on the internet and an educated person should already know the information.

We're discussing China, and it was brought down by dopers and dope ~ it's important.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3680/is_200304/ai_n9206056 references a book review that contains this interesting tidbit for your consumption:

" ...... The second Opium War witnessed the loss of Hong Kong, opening of port facilities to British traffickers, and the multiplying of opium abuse throughout the country. With the abundance of supplies, about 30 percent of the Chinese population drifted into an opium habit, of which 10 percent turned into chronic addicts. The situation only grew worse when, in the last 19th century, the Chinese began to grow indigenous opium to combat the Indian supplies......"

No doubt you'd think it really generous for the US government to actually grow dope for you and your little buddies, but it didn't do the Chinese a bit of good. Things just got worse and the empire fell, then the civilization, then civil order everywhere, and finally we have the warlords, the arrival of the Communists under Chang Kai Shek (yes, Kou Min Tang was a commie operation at first, but later became fascist, and finally democratic under American tutelage) (NOTE: everything's always different in China than you ever believed, or could have imagined for that matter).

The ChiCom faction under the leadership of Chou En Lei and Mao Tse Tung finally put an end to this incredibly high rate of addiction through the remarkably simple expedient of removing addict's heads from their necks. Voila, a cure at last! Everyone rejoiced. They were also able to eliminate most of the source of supply by exterminating the growers, processors and suppliers.

Unrealistically low estimates put the number of deaths at 2,000,000. Since dopers actually don't respond to "treatment" over the long haul (their recidivism rate approaches 100%) if we find a 10% addiction rate in the aggregate, and 300,000,000 population, that means at least 30,000,000 addicts were eliminated.

For any number of reasons George Soros and his running dog lackeys want to put America through the same rough mill of free and widespread use of addictive hallucinogenic or soporific substances. Irrespective of their reasons, they must be stopped before it becomes necessary to dispose of 30,000,000 Americans like so many Chinese opium addicts.

So, despite your protestations to the contrary, I'm really looking out for your own best interests as well as that of your children. But, given the fall of civilization I'm going to be out there pushing hard for the "head from neck" treatment FUR SHUR.