Britain gets into the drug trade : historymemes

[–] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

That's how you win a trade war. Start a drug war on the side of drugs.

[+] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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[–] knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Does this cause problems with abuse of medicine in China? Medicine usually is poison admitted in a small portion.

[+] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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[–] smeg@feddit.uk 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This is really interesting! Are legal drugs like nicotine and alcohol categorised as poison, medicine, or something else?

[–] Meron35@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The lack of a difference between the words drug/medicine seems to be more pronounced in US English, where it is common to say terms such as drugstore. In Commonwealth/UK English, the term chemist is more commonly used, and the terms drug/medicine usually have bad/good connotations. I think most would be alarmed if you said you went to the store to pick up some drugs!

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 3 months ago

Definitely more of an American thing with terms like "drug store", but I think if the context is medicine or other non-prohibited stuff then "drugs" is pretty accepted, it just always comes with the joke that you're nipping down to the chemist's for some heroin.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Never hear about china’s silver requirement though

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What's China's silver requirement?

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This documentary is part of larger series with both chinese and western historians, and goes into detail and background leading up to the opium wars https://youtu.be/26AjcWuYfUE

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