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100 Mile House Free Press

 

District of 100 Mile House councillors got a few items of business done at their Sept. 21 meeting.

 

Mayor’s report

 

Campsall said a seven-person delegation from China visited 100 Mile on Sept. 17 to look at the possibilities of processing hemp.

 

Noting two Chinese delegates had visited earlier and came with five more to look over the situation, Campsall said they showed a lot of interest.

 

“We’re just hoping something is going to come out of it. We’re still fighting for it.

 

“Our MLA was there and we’re all working together to try to get this up and running soon.”

 

By: Jonathan Power, Toronto Star

 

During the difficult years that preceded the British handover of Hong Kong to China, the Chinese government's intense antipathy to opium and the still fresh memories of the evil that 18th century buccaneering Britain had inflicted on China and Hong Kong added an extra emotional charge to what, anyway, was a most complicated transition. Without opium there would have been no Hong Kong. The British only acquired it because of the Opium Wars, and the city's early economic success was built on the opium trade.

 

It was the British who fed the Chinese propensity for opium. Historians point out that the Chinese would have found it elsewhere, even grown some of it themselves. But the truth is the Indian-grown opium was the brand the Chinese smokers savoured and the British East India Company marketed it with commercial élan.

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