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Opium had long been used sparingly in India and China as a valuable and useful medicine. When Britain's dependency on Chinese tea created a balance of trade problem, the East India company turbo-charged the opium industry and found an infinitely expanding market for opium in China.
Guest: Amitav Ghosh, author of Smoke and Ashes: Opiums Hidden Histories (Hachette)
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