[dfwgator]

Of course probably at most 1% of Americans even know about The Opium Wars.

[sport]

What do you know about the East India Tea Company?

[Tell It Right]

For years as folks fussed about our "wars for oil" in Afghanistan and Iraq I've thought that, if they were over commodities, that opium was as important as oil. Especially as we started making more oil ourselves through fracking (thus, less need for war for oil).

The difference between Americans' addition to opioids from the rest of the world's addiction to the same is that in America we make Big Pharma rich from our addiction.