Time: This is how Queen Victoria has become the largest drug dealer ever policy

Who is the most famous drug dealer ever? You may think that he is Pablo Escobar, or maybe El Chapo, but you will be wrong. According to an article in the American Time Magazine, as more than 100 years before the birth of these two baronin, there was a very strong woman who controlled a very wide and profitable drug empire in an unimaginable way that she made Escobar and Al Chapo appear as low -level drug traders and merely promoted her on the streets.

Thus, the magazine began its article, surprisingly, as much as it is interesting, as expert Sam Kelly, author of “History of Humanity with Drugs” (published by Bengoyen Random House), viewed the huge trade established by Britain in the mid -19th century with China to sell opium produced in large quantities in India, the colony of Her Majesty.

Kelly said that when she took power in 1837, she found the British economy suffering a tremendous deficit with China, the only resource for tea that is intense.

He adds that the East India Company, which was running the economies of the British colonies, which compare to the largest multinational companies of our time, tried – in all roads – balancing its trade with Beijing, to no avail: with the continued impotence, it was forced to borrow from the British crown so that it does not collapse.

The historian says, “The London family with an average income was spending 5% of its income on Chinese tea, but Britain had nothing to trade with China in return,” the historian said.

In these circumstances, British merchants, with the complicity of the government, found the solution in the opium produced in huge quantities in India, which was then under the control of the East India Company of the British Crown.

This product was officially prohibited in China, but the Chinese were appreciating it. And its price continued to rise in line with the continuous demand: which represented a pleasant surprise for the British crown, which Kelly summarized, saying, “Thanks to the opium miracle, the imbalance of the trade balance was reflected overnight. Since then, China, not Great Britain, has become a destroyed commercial deficit …”.

The matter was not hidden from the Chinese authorities. Rather, Emperor Douganang tried to confront this abnormal trade by assigning the ruler Lynn Zixo the fierce opponent of the Afion, to investigate the matter.

The latter wrote directly to Queen Victoria, asking her to ban this trade, saying, “Where is your conscience?” But his reprimand for her was not feasible, and then took a radical step by repairing customs.

The queen herself did not bother to read the letter – according to the writer – which means that Zixo, the salt and perseverance, needed to find another way to attract her attention. In the spring of 1839, he intercepted a fleet of British ships, confiscated a huge shipment of opium, and ordered his soldiers to be dumped in the Sea of southern China.

“But the British Empire was not ready to abandon the profitable drug trade, because the sales of opium were then between 15 and 20% of the annual revenues of the British Empire,” according to Kelly.

Therefore, the writer says, after several incidents, the Victorian government announced the war on China, and in 1840 it sent a fleet of 40 ships and 19,000 soldiers, to crush Chinese forces, to represent the first opium war in the world.

In 1842, the British signed the Nanking Treaty that Hong Kong granted them and free trade, and unrestricted to several ports, so Victoria would have toppled a thousand -year -old civilization, and became the most powerful drug wig of the ages.

Worse – according to what was stated in Time – that Victoria himself was addicted to drugs of all kinds, and she was quick to use hemp liquid to relieve menstrual pain and difficult pregnancies, as it promoted to inhale chloroform to give birth, which caused a real revolution.

The queen was eating every morning and regularly an extracted drink from opium, to relieve repeated pain, and chewed cocaine gum to calm gingivitis. Kelly explains that this gum has strengthened the queen’s confidence in herself.