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THE INTERNATIONAL E-MAGAZINE

MAY 2014

8.-Explain the causes for the first opium
war

everything about the foreign policies of China
and their interaction with Western nations.

Addiction was a very huge cause for this first
opium war, because this was an epidemic for
the Chinese. The British took advantage of
the high demand of opium in China, and
began widespread illegal exportation of
opium to the country. Another cause was the
China's isolationist trade policy with the
West, because China would accept only
silver from the British, tension arose quickly
between the two countries

11.-When was heroin developed? Who
coins the name "heroin"?
the heroin is a drug very popular since the
mid to late 1800's that is an opium derivative
that was discovered by alchemist Charles
Romley Alder Wright the one who first
synthesized the drug and coins the name
heroin
12.-When were the Chinese successful in
convincing the British to dismantle the
India-China opium trade?

9.-Mention the effects of the first opium
war.
The first opium war resulted in a treaty that
opened five new ports in China for trade with
the west. Trade taxes were also limited to
5%, and the Chinese now had to accept the
concept of extraterritoriality. Also China was
forced to pay the British 9 million dollars for
all of the opium they had destroyed during
the war.

After many years (150 years) of failed
attempts to rid the country of opium, which
finally the Chinese convinced the British to
dismantle the India-China opium trade, in
1910.
13.-When did the U.S. Department´s
Narcotic Division ban all legal narcotic
sale forcing addicts to buy from illegal
street dealers?

10.-Mention the effects of the second
opium war.

In 1923, the first federal drug agency;U.S
Treasury Departments Narcotics Division
bans all legal narcotics sale, this caused the
people to buy from illegal street dealers

The second opium war leads to the changing
of every aspect of China's policies and
ideals. The opium trade had been legalized.
These wars had permanently changed
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