UK forced China to open its doors to the opium trade in the 1830s. THe Chinese became addicted to opium as its price dropped. https://www.unodc.org/documents/wdr/WDR_2008/WDR2008_100years_drug_control_origins.pdf The Chinese are now flooding the US with fentanyl which is 100X more addictive than heroin. Thereby it is worsening the opioid crisis in the US, https://www.wsj.com/articles/despit...yl-trafficking-is-still-a-problem-11566597494
Two wrongs don't make one right. What went with UK to China shouldn't have come around to the US or to any parts of the world ever. It's despicable for China to have flooded US, a country that never participated in the opium war with fentanyl which is really an opiate-based painkiller when it had been the victim of opium addiction and knowing full well the devastating effects of opium on the user and their family. Another reason one should be wary about the economic growth in China to see how unsustainable it is when part of it is based on drug-dealing. They highhandedly execute foreign "drug-dealers" yet they turn a blind eye to drug exporting to foreign countries.
Drugs and even abortions were legal even in colonial times, typical big government republicans outlawed them, so we're wasting $50 billion per year on their "war on drugs" and you can still purchase illegal drugs in any small town in the US of A. It's still "supply and demand", when are they ever going to learn?