The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.

The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.

Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.