justsayknow
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River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh. Its an interesting read about the opium trade prior to the opium wars in China and the sequel to Sea of Poppies. Its amazing how active the British were in promoting opium use historically and just how much money they made out of it before prohibition. Although its a work of fiction many of the events and circumstances are based in reality. Things like getting the Indian farmers to switch from food crops to opium production and employing addicts in the processing factorys. The British East India Company were the original drug cartel it seems.