Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.
It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also.
I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured China from, you know, the opium wars through the Chinese civil war, and I don't think it was pretty for Asia or the world.
The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.
Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.
The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.
The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south.
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.