The year Mexico legalised drugs
The British East India Company, the largest drug trading organization of the 19th century, is to be blamed for most of modern drug trade.<p>It is very likely that the opium poppies in modern Mexico are direct descendants of the ones planted by the British.<p>After the British lost their colonies in the Americas, they tried to fix their economy by selling opium to China. A few decades later, many Chinese workers moved to the Americas, among them, opium poppy planters. Few decades later, the US passed the Chinese Exclusion Act and many of them moved to Mexico.<p>Total death toll? millions of people.<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Opium_Wars" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Opium_Wars</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=fgQahGsYokU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=fgQahGsYokU</a> (animated explanation)