It is worth consideration that the opium gangs in the time of Mao were more like warlords than gangs as we know them in the imperial core they were also responsible for several famines as people cannot eat opium and all the land given over to growing drugs grows no food
although I remember reading somewhere that Mao implemented a policy of helping drug addicts recover while focusing on cracking down on dealers especially at high levels
they were grown in China. The British when they were in the process of getting the Chinese addicted to opium grew the drugs in colonial India. However over time the British were largely pushed out of the Chinese opium market by domestic competition
According to my Grand parents, that policy was implemented but i'm not sure what really happened with those people, I assume they were sent to a workcamps alongside some lumpen elements of society (ei: beggars and vagabonds)
It is worth consideration that the opium gangs in the time of Mao were more like warlords than gangs as we know them in the imperial core they were also responsible for several famines as people cannot eat opium and all the land given over to growing drugs grows no food
although I remember reading somewhere that Mao implemented a policy of helping drug addicts recover while focusing on cracking down on dealers especially at high levels
Drugs weren't grown in China. They were grown in India and Pakistan (was the same territory back then) and imported to China.
they were grown in China. The British when they were in the process of getting the Chinese addicted to opium grew the drugs in colonial India. However over time the British were largely pushed out of the Chinese opium market by domestic competition
there were actual Cash crops of opium during the sino-japanese war, a lot of japanese General made fortune in the trade (tojo iirc)
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According to my Grand parents, that policy was implemented but i'm not sure what really happened with those people, I assume they were sent to a workcamps alongside some lumpen elements of society (ei: beggars and vagabonds)
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If I recall correctly there were treatment centres built