And Paf! In 1856, yet another declaration of war of Victorian Britain to China!  Unmet deemed "insufficient" concessions this time above Britain's Queen V******* gets the...“Total Legalization of the Opium trade”.
Yes Sir ! Nothing less !
“Cheers to Queen V*******”, so they say ???
(Pharmacists were selling the drug WITHOUT limits / there were opium in Cafés and corner grocery stores (workers had recourse to relieve their misery)/ 
opium was often less expensive that the...gin !/opium “fumeries” (“dens”) sprang up all over Europe, specially in London, shipments of opium were more ABUNDANT that everywhere in Europe given the monopoly of the trade of Britain).
 (see more on YouTube)= “Opium Wars Documentary” by T. Williams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6p9ox_T8LE
(copy-paste in wb address)