The War on Opium | Addicted to Pleasure | BBC Studios

Brian Cox learns the origins and history of the war on opium. Taken from Addicted To Pleasure.
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[@mrheimdall]

Instead of being called "addicted to pleasure" shouldn't the title be "Drug pushers from across the sea."

[@suncat5160]

Gary Garrett no. Why would it be?

[@dboy2462]

That's what so many people fail to understand about the so called opium war. The demand for opium in China already existed centuries before the British started selling to them, and the Chinese themselves sold opium in their own country - they regarded the British trade as unfair competition. Also, the huge majority of opium smokers in China were not hopeless addicts as people seem to portray. Most people used opium socially, or medically, against fever, cough, malaria, tuberculose, etc. Frank Dikottër has a great book explaining that, of which this article is a summary of: www.opendemocracy.net/en/unravelling-myth-of-china-s-opium-plague/

[@fierrymarkpanggo8162]

I strongly agree with you sir...

[@fierrymarkpanggo8162]

@@dboy2462 so it does making it look like righthteous to forcibly sell drugs

[@dboy2462]

@@fierrymarkpanggo8162 Not forcibly.

[@Macolicious88]

Brian Cox not only is an incredible actor but excellent narrator as well.

[@johnwayne2140]

Ohh, aye!

[@user-ri3wj6bf3f]

Documentaries like this is the reason why I like BBC.

[@carmenc5898]

Wow, this video is great! Thanks BBC for helping me understand more about Opium.

[@vladimireng4938]

Neceron The dragon Opium is the gate way drug

[@vapaus831]

When the british sold opium in china they were not selling a drug they believed to be harmful dangerous or even necessarily addictive, instead they were selling a compound they used themselves.

[@jimooky7113]

UK currently grows then exports the largest amount of legally grown weed in Europe, yet it is illegal in the UK.

[@Antymills424]

The priest animation....lol

[@voiceofchina1788]

it was called Anglo Chinese Wars instead of Opium Wars in English textbooks.

[@ThomasG.-hh9gg]

Obsfucate= to confuse

[@rodneymullen313]

this is what Brits teach in their school? It was okay for them to illegally import banned drugs to another country as long as the Chinese had “desire” for them?

[@charleshowie2074]

We are taught about what happened. There is a strong 'not everything we did historically was cool' vibe in our teaching of History.

[@rodneymullen313]

@@charleshowie2074 I respect that mate

[@thirdmonkeyent]

Well, really, the act of a grown, consenting adult human ingesting a substance to stain a desired feeling doesn't infringe on the life or liberty of anyone else. So really no human has higher authority over another to tell them they can't do something that doesn't infringe on anyone else. There'd be a lot less crimes and lives ruined if people were just allowed to have the drugs they want. Price would plummet since it's legal(illegality created more risk and therefore higher prices), safer quality would be created, and crying would decrease, because people wouldn't steal and commit crimes for money, because it would be easily available at the store and a lot more affordable. Alcohol was supposed to destroy America if it was made legal, yet here we are. Alcohol is just a drug that the government arbitrarily allows you to have.

[@mvespi]

Where can I buy this series? So good.

[@stefanfilipovits21]

Ahhhhh Brian Cox. I’d recognize that voice anywhere.

[@VinnyVincenzoYo]

Can anyone help me out with a way to watch/purchase this full documentary?

[@lalrawngbawlazote488]

If the British are not ashamed of this, they will not be ashamed of anything.

[@ThomasG.-hh9gg]

I believe the British apply an effort to hide the truth

[@vapaus831]

When the british sold opium in china they were not selling a drug they believed to be harmful dangerous or even necessarily addictive, instead they were selling a compound they used themselves.

[@charlesmaximus9161]

I’m American, but I am an Anglo-Saxon of British stock, both sides of my family. Our people have absolutely nothing to be ashamed of. Nothing. And if you hate us that badly, then, practice what you preach and STOP appropriating my peoples’ language.

[@vapaus831]

Most of the Ch_nese op___ users were not add_cts.

[@Seansyy62]

@@charlesmaximus9161fentanyl wars coming to America

[@Anon_Anon0]

The East India Company (EIC) was an English and later British joint-stock company founded in 1600.[2] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia), and later with Qing China. The company ended up seizing control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent, colonised parts of Southeast Asia and Hong Kong after the First Opium War, and maintained trading posts and colonies in the Persian Gulf Residencies.[3] The company is also known as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC), East India Trading Company (EITC), the English East India Company or the British East India Company, and informally known as John Company,[4] Company Bahadur,[5] or simply The Company, mainly involved in Drug trafficking (Opium).

[@mahmudii2081]

I think we all know that lol

[@joshomalin]

Can anyone tell me what kind of music is in 1:40? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

[@CNX625]

Drugs made a man weak. He and his family are scrutinized by the community as future addicts. No one wants to marry sons and daughters of addicts, believing that their income would only further their parents addiction.

[@thehuntress6385]

Of Course Details of Opium war aren’t well described in British school books BUT the East remembers !

[@devinwwt]

And the British and west know that China remembers, thats why they’ve been worried and scared as hell since the rise of China to global power again.

[@ThomasG.-hh9gg]

The British love hiding the truth

[@lesleyrussell8200]

¿is there the full program?

[@karlashdown5228]

So the Red statue with the Cannon at it's centre is the guy on the top meant to look like Lenin?

[@PennyDreadful1]

Isn't everyone addicted to pleasure?

[@Hu5tL1nJuNk13]

Yes thats why moderation of it is extremely vital to overall happiness. I am one of the people who recognize my sickness but find it impossible to change. So if you arent in the game stay out at all costs...

[@iridiumFalcon]

Im on opium rn yes

[@stefanfilipovits21]

I certainly am

[@ThreeNinjaDucks]

I'm addicted the pain and sadness

[@stefanfilipovits21]

@@ThreeNinjaDucks you’re gonna looooooooove 2020 then

[@guerlinesaintlouis4471]

It's a remarkable story

[@EnsoLLC]

The first war on drug?

[@Luciferscorpse]

I got opium we goin up*+

[@vlncentchi2002]

I been on opium for the last ten days

[@tray-oq1nj]

I would gladly trade tea for opium any day of the week. Imagine how nice it would be to have opium dens now. Sad the great lengths others go to control what one does with their own body.

[@skyeflores1687]

I wholeheartedly agree

[@hymatwat9412]

Lol

[@kwbranson]

the old lady that traded a flower for a sail boat 1 for 1

[@王平-w4q]

Opium grows opium in India and Southeast Asia, dumping China to make money. The Anglo Saxon.Behind the Opium War was a trade deficit. Tea, silk and porcelain had a surplus with Britain, while Britain's industrialized cloth had no market in China. Mankind's first trade war

[@tulsisaw3628]

thanks

[@Steadno]

they all got a lil buzz when burning

[@buttersstotch2014]

Dude looks like patches o’houlihan Edit, I meant captain o’Hagan LOL EDIT2: it IS captain o hagan!

[@RobFeldkamp]

you know it is him right?

[@blessingmasawi3616]

*Imagine watching the BBC'S version of this and still wondering why China's armung up😂😂* that's why i watch both tbh

[@jacktian9754]

No developed countries did not get their hands dirty on their ways of development.

[@gordonbgraham]

Said no one ever

[@danielfahimislam3166]

Watching this high off codeine

[@ydoic1111]

So when they burned the opium using lime did the just make morphine?

[@FlatRangeOperator]

Yeah but didn't realize lol

[@72CCHPhilip]

Western are good at open trade with their strategies method.

[@kwbranson]

ty

[@abubardewa939]

20 millions Chinese died because of this dirty tactics

[@kevinwang7976]

The west still want to colonze China, but instead opium they use modern tools like news and social media

[@jglg7238]

haha the brits got karma back

[@qjtvaddict]

It’s called incompetence

[@djribz]

A jesuit priest i suppose..

[@johnweir1217]

No mention of David Sassoon , I wonder why....?

[@tenchhofaiyongsawa255]

William jardine was one of the famous opium sellers where is he a hero in?

[@anonymous3174]

Hero in Get it?

[@brd8764]

Materialism and all that it can be.

[@goldchocobo5372]

What about opium and tacos...

[@minus0_]

The Triangular trade - Lancashire & Manchester(East India Company), To gain & balance trade(fulfilling European's tea demand at zero cost) forced Bengal peasants(people massacred who spoke against Britishers) to cultivate opium, illegally traded in canton from Calcutta port, made Chinese people addicted as Chinese emperor was aware addictive properties so it was banned in China. In 1839 the Chinese Emperor sent Lin Ze-xu(Special Commissioner ) to Canton to stop the opium trade. When he made arrests(1600 men) & impounded 11k pound opium, Britishers declared war(1837-42) defeated & humiliated Chinese by making them accept to legalize trade. Interestingly - Smoking opium was strictly banned in Britain but they made Chinese addicted.

[@JoshCaiLovzu]

interesting indeed

[@Aaste0001]

ROYAL FAMILY OMG

[@muhamadvidifaizal2600]

Early modern narcos

[@garychynne1377]

legalize it. solve the problem.

[@b.benevolent8098]

stuffed chickens with opium and feed it to them is how they did it smh

[@scottywarren3498]

Makes me want to smoke some opium

[@少康战情妇-e6i]

事实上我一直在想怎么从云南边境运输鸦片到西方，对西方人贩卖鸦片类成瘾药物对我没有任何心理上的不适。我的居住地有成堆的黄金不能让她变现是种罪恶，更是对金钱的侮辱，有兴趣合作吗？我们将让白色的黄金在盎格鲁的领地肆意飞翔。这个该死天才想法太棒了联系我我的兄弟让我们伟大

[@ॐSrimanArcharyaJBC]

Please also note that China is as also called India until its formation of the Maoist Communist party that named it China after the INA Army’s success in defeating the WeJi. ⚡️🤴🏽🕉🔺➕

[@blazecrafthd9916]

Hello

[@DarthAzabrush]

A bit tasteless using a silly animation instead of a dramatisation.

[@patrickc7248]

Wow, modern day Americans (and other countries) today are spoiled with production value and special FX flooding their brain in a sea of stimulating but useless information. I think we're forgetting that even though we have 7 billion people on this planet, someone still has to do the work to dramatize it, and to you it wouldn't be worth it. It works as an outline of the important details to preserve in memory quickly with a level of understanding so that you can hypothetically recreate the content you watch to someone else with words and a pen.

[@Tonezdel]

Patrick Cу hey just because one person has an opinion doesn't mean he or she represents all Americans ..... wow

[@abirmef9510]

👌

[@kwbranson]

here

[@abubardewa939]

First drug cartels in the world

[@bobsmith5109]

Now the Chinese are getting even with fentenal

[@l.337]

wjntoronto they’re not going to invade you to force your druggies to continue taking their drugs though, in fact they convicted the illegal fentenal traffickers. Britain went to war for their drug dealers, this is a huge false equivalence.

[@ThomasG.-hh9gg]

So true

[@khanimran7465]

Its always the priests be it America or Asia jesus loves you

[@athensmajnoo3661]

Twisted trade practices....

[@FreemanIntegrity1982]

Chinese people will never forget...never

[@ThomasG.-hh9gg]

I am an Irish American and I will not forget what the British did to the Irish

[@VintageYakyu]

Shenanigans

[@tray-oq1nj]

What a waste. Imiagne how nice it would be to have a few crates of opium like that?

[@pikiwiki]

opium with bibles.

[@ThomasG.-hh9gg]

Get high on opium and see God, that’s a sales pitch

[@tracycove257]

British should be ashamed of their empire

[@ThomasG.-hh9gg]

The British raped Ireland

[@goat.exe3]

sup

[@jarrodyuki7081]

i love the tools!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you msut seize trrinkets or prizes for every victory!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! if you possess illegal contranbad police will seize the illegal contranband anythng that containst the illeglal contrabnad and arrest you........

[@sroy4846]

Sala sab 2 no. Ki cheeze bihar se ati ha. 2:56

[@michaelaseah2469]

"addiction to pleasure"?? kinda insensitive title for a british video...

[@suncat5160]

Michaela Seah how so?

[@MsNooneinparticular]

Mmm...opium.

[@iguanapete3809]

that sounds like Sean Connery.

[@rustymugg9658]

1833..hhmmm

[@shabbankjes1775]

And now we addicted to phones

[@CurrentaffairInShorts]

If India had done the same thing we could have saved ourselves for 200 year and the looter may not have looted our country ...

[@julianjulian9973]

They call her "Iron lady", in Asia we called her "Pirate Queen"

[@rogersmith6411]

Crack 200yrs ago

[@ThomasG.-hh9gg]

The British are so greedy

[@charlieclark9552]

Why is there a war on my favorate plant

[@particleartsstudios299]

Just Say No

[@huiyu5518]

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