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79: Alex Gibney Talks Opioids & His Doc “The Crime of the Century”

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The Crime of the Century

opium wars was it's all es about money, right? Yes. This this crime, it was the british east india company was running a massive trade. They were growing opium in india in factories, and then shipping it to china and making bank. It balanced world trade at the time. Our balance of trade is quite good because of the opiom we're sending to china. We are very proud of that. Raa, i think you're going english. That's does not even show in connery. I don't know what that is. But anyway, point is is that it was a commodity, a huge commodity, an important world wide commodity.

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