The Taliban's Trojan horse: What really happened after Afghanistan's opium ban
- Wars have been fought over land, over succession, over a woman said to have launched a thousand ships toward Troy.
- Opium got its own war twice, in 1839 and again in 1856, but not the kind that name suggests.
- Britain went to war for the right to keep selling opium into China, after the Qing government tried to ban it and started burning British stockpiles in Canton harbour.
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- Wars have been fought over land, over succession, over a woman said to have launched a thousand ships toward Troy.
- Opium got its own war twice, in 1839 and again in 1856, but not the kind that name suggests.
- Britain went to war for the right to keep selling opium into China, after the Qing government tried to ban it and started burning British stockpiles in Canton harbour.
Sources: Times of India