The Opium War

The first drug war is known as the British opium war, which took place in the 19th century with the Chinese and the British. The British wanted to balance out their trade with the china for tea so they imported opium from India trying to sell it to the Chinese. China did not need to trade with any other country because they produced everything them self. So Great Britain try to bring in opium to china by mixing it with the tobacco so when they use the tobacco they become addicted to it do, in return the British can make money from the Chinese because know the Chinese needed the opium more so their economy fell. Many of their income was used to buy the opium Britain was becoming rich of the Chinese.

When China’s government found out that Britain was smuggling in opium in to china it caused the war, the Chinese send a letter to queen Victoria but she never received the letter so the Chinese went a head and used forced but the British was for better kin technology so they came out victorious.