Drugs As Weapons

We all know, how drugs affect our body, how they make us addict, how small-sighted it makes us and so on. These drugs can be helpful for some people inappropriate amount while prescribed by the doctor. But for an average person, it's harmful. Nowadays, it's cool doing drugs; for gen z, it's like the ultimate stage of being cool. But is it cool? I mean, who told you that it's cool doing drugs? Maybe you don't remember because it's a general idea. But who spread this idea, only someone making money out of it and who was it. They were imperialists earlier. 

Do you know there were wars called opium wars? Are you familiar with them? It's clear from the name that opium was a reason somehow. So, this war was between China and the Britishers. The Chinese market was not open to foreign powers, and they investigate imports via a single port. So, to open a call to them, Britishers smuggled opium in China along with their other goods. They made the Chinese population addicted to it and replaced gold with opium as payment. Because of all this Chinese king faced huge losses and tried to tackle this situation which ultimately leads to opium wars. And as a result, China was colonised not just by Britishers but was squeezed like a lemon from different imperial powers.

Now, why do you think that the Chinese king faces enormous losses? Was it just because of the decrement in the gold accumulation? This was a supplementary reason; one accompanying reason was that because of opium addiction Chinese population got mentally retrograde. They lost creativity,  failed to overlook the short-term pleasures, couldn't realise how were they targeted, and the result was dreadful. This opium didn't just suck the resources of China but also neutralised the talents of the country.

Coming back to today's world, where do these drugs come from? I mean, which part-owns the fields of opium? If you try to get this answer, you'll find that Afghanistan is among the largest poppy producers. Isn't that country is the base for many terrorist organisations. So, we are giving money to our destroyers or, say, carrying agenda for non-human notions. Aren't we all are patriots? We all are against those types of activity, right? Like whenever some blast takes place, we are the ones showing condolences to affected people. When somehow some of us are responsible for that blast.

So, it should be clear that doing drugs affects our physical or mental being and funds the organisations we condemn. But, drugs affect our country not just by funding them. Also, it decreases the efficiency of a person, reducing the country's output, affecting its growth and stopping us from achieving our true potential.