Between which two countries was the "First Opium War"?

Hong Kong was acquired by the British as a result of this war. It was returned in 1997. The British were unscrupulous and immoral drug pushers.

ChewyGazelle68623, here here is a fun drug fact ~the German company by the name of Bayer came up with Heroin as a cure for opiate abuse.

Sadly, this just shows that drug addiction has been the scourge of this planet for centuries. Back in these days, many of the drugs were legal

Maddog, Maybe if man could just figure out how to make society a little less tragic they could do away with the need for people to escape into a numbing sense of existence.

SQinfoNUTS, Is that true?

Some 90 percent of young men along the coast of China were addicted to opium.

just got to have that opium!!