What if through the silk road large amounts of opium began to flow to Rome and an addiction epidemic took hold, how would that have impacted society and how would the emperors have acted?
After the BEIC started pushing and refining it, only then did you have a crisis
Not an expert but as far as I remember, it's like between beer and gin. You could get wasted on beer and wine, but when people start downing pints of gin for breakfast, things tend to get worseWow, so before the refinement it was just a pain reliever? Wow, way to ruin things. EIC.