Originally Posted by
Balance
The Buddhists & Hindus have a word for it - Karma.
The West (being Britain, France, Russia, Japan & US latterly) forced opium down the throats of the Chinese in exchange for all the goods they wanted from China at that time of great value (tea, silk, porcelain, silver, gold etc), so the West reaps the punishment of history and karma now with the flow of drugs down the veins of its citizens, especially the youth.
As the Brits are fond of saying : What goes around, comes around.