An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
Opium served as the coin of Exchange for the British Empire for several decades and it was the only commodity available to rescuethe Empire’s Company from bankruptcy.
Opium was a commodity traded by chests, “each chest of opium weighed about 133 poundsand contained about 120 pounds of semi-processed opium.”
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An “average cargo was about1,000 chests which could be delivered from Calcutta to the Canton estuary in as little as 25days with fast ship and good weather.”
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As a first source from someone who lived in Indiaduring the Nineteenth Century narrates,
http://www.academia.edu/1444383/The_...m_1764_to_1825
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01-08-2015, 04:10 PM
Bankrupt British Empire turned to be drug cartels and traffickers, shame the angmoh
