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China is virtually drug free?

In that case, Wikipedia could use your help cleaning up this and many related articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_drug_trade_in_China

Don't forget to cite your sources! They're sticklers about that sort of thing.



> how China became drug free after Britain made China into the biggest dope user through the Opium wars.

I referring to the period following the opium ban. I believe this was the 50s, not the present day. We are also comparing to an insanely high level were the claims was that 90% of inhabitants of certain provinces were users.


If you're referring to the 1850s that's simply false: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_opium_in_China#/med...

If you're referring to the decades since the 1950s, under a communist regime the Chinese obviously had better things to worry about (like surviving, finding a meal or looking commie enough not to be singled out by their own children and 're-educated' in some hellish camp).




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