Opium...............................sex rings..............drugs can heighten the sexual experience.............some people's addictions run their lives............................two opium wars.............in the 1800s between European countries and China................they must have their fix......................one was England alone...........the other one.........Holland joined with them................
In 1823, Samuel Russell established Russell and Company for the
purpose of acquiring opium in Turkey and smuggling it to China.
Russell and Company merged with the Perkins (Boston) syndicate in
1830 and became the primary American opium smuggler. Many of the
great American and European fortunes were built on the
"China"(opium) trade.
One of Russell and Company's Chief of Operations in Canton was
Warren Delano, Jr., grandfather of Franklin Roosevelt. Other
Russell partners included John Cleve Green (who financed
Princeton), Abiel Low (who financed construction of Columbia),
Joseph Coolidge and the Perkins, Sturgis and Forbes families.
(Coolidge's son organized the United Fruit company, and his
grandson, Archibald C. Coolidge, was a co-founder of the Council on
Foreign Relations.)
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