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====How Recent Trends Differed from did recreational drug use change starting in the Past==16th Century? ==Tobacco was the major drug of choice that became traded between the New and Old World. It was instantly popular already by the 16th century in Europe, when clay pipes began to be created to be smoked all across Europe. Opium and marijuana were also known but not very common until renewed contact with China and India in the 17th to 19th centuries. Opium and marijuana only became illegal drugs across parts of the Old World in the 19th century. During his invasion of Egypt, Napolean became concerned his troops were drinking cannabis mixed in drinks and smoking it. Morphine, derived from the same opium poppies, was also developed in the 19th century as a medical product in Germany. Heroin was similarly derived in Europe in the 19th century by an English chemist and then developed into a medicinal drug by the drug company Bayer Pharmaceutical Company in the 1890s. In the 1860s, cocaine was derived from cocoa by a German chemist, where it similarly began to be used in medicine and recreationally. Additionally, it was used in the soft drink Coca-Cola, which gave it its name.<ref>For more on how naturally occurring drugs were developed into derivative drugs, see: Lyman, Michael D. 2017. <i>Drugs in Society: Causes, Concepts, and Control</i>. Eighth edition. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. </ref>

Heroin was similarly derived in Europe in the 19th century by an English chemist and then developed into a medicinal drug by the drug company Bayer Pharmaceutical Company in the 1890s. In the 1860s, cocaine was derived from cocoa by a German chemist, where it similarly began to be used in medicine and recreationally. Additionally, it was used in the soft drink Coca-Cola, which gave it its name.<ref>For more on how naturally occurring drugs were developed into derivative drugs, see: Lyman, Michael D. 2017. <i>Drugs in Society: Causes, Concepts, and Control</i>. Eighth edition. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. </ref>  ==Why did the Opium trade from China increase dramatically in the 19th Century?==The opium trade continued to increase throughout much of the 19th century, particularly from India. Opium was being exported to China from India, where it was also commercially grown by the British East India Company. This Chinese had banned opium by this point, but the British East India Company began illegally smuggling it into China through Canton's port. This led the Chinese government to confiscate the opium from Canton, but this led to Britain's conflict, which launched the so-called First Opium War that led to the take over of Hong Kong and other Chinese ports.  Throughout the 19th century, opium was widely traded despite its ban in a few countries. In the West, it was legal and often used to derive various drugs such as morphine and heroin. It was only in 1912 that opium became banned under the International Opium Convention. Similarly, the 1920s was an era where other drugs increasingly became banned, such as marijuana, as by then crime and heavy drug use became larger problems in Western countries.<ref>For more on a recent history of opium and its banning, see Inglis, Lucy. 2018. <i>Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium</i>. London: Macmillan. </ref>