If the drugs are produced in China and thus are available there, why doesn't China (nor Mexico) have the same level of problems?
And the other way round: For sure, Opium was imported to England. Why didn't it become a problem?
And the other way round: For sure, Opium was imported to England. Why didn't it become a problem?
Opium was produced around Calcutta(Kolkata). Shipping it to China was cheap, shipping it to the UK was expensive. Only the wealthy British could afford opium, and they used a ton of it. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_English_Opiu...
The drugs that China exports to the US aren't legal to be sold in China, but are legal (for them) to export to other countries.
Opium was produced in British India, not China, for the most part.
10X the population, you'll see anything worked before becomes useless.
So one problem in UK is nusaise, in China would be catastrophe.
Just because Opium is not a problem in UK, doesn't mean that it would be a problem in China.
Also, liberal voting politics works in the West, could be a disaster in the majority of the world today outside of the West.