Dear Editor,
It’s time. Time to ban the use of opium in China. There’s just no way a drug that is ruining hundreds of thousands of lives and allowing our European counterparts to dominate our trade relations should be legal. That’s right, hundreds of thousands of lives. And not like “ruining” as in causing erratic behavior, ruining like people sitting around all day smoking, giving up their businesses just to use opium. It’s honestly destroying our population. And our government, the one in charge of protecting us, is just standing by and watching many of the coastal regions of China go up in smoke. Socially destroyed, because of a single drug.
And that leads to my second point: opium has been available in China for many, many years. Yet only in the past few has it become a major problem in what was previously a significantly thriving society. That's what happens when our neighbors in the west try to trade opium in mass amounts. And we as a population bought into this trade: 'Porcelain for opium, sure.' Just a few short years ago, it was China who was dominating the trade partnership with the West. A good piece of porcelain was worth more than it's weight in gold. Now, it's barely worth a bag of opium. The British have found a way to dominate the trade market and we, the citizens, and our government are going right along with it. It would only take one law and some monitoring of the scene down at the port of Canton for all these problems go away. Yet there are no signs of such actions being taken.
Sincerely,
Li Shang
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