_Smoke and Ashes_ had me thinking of _The Wire_: a drug dealer is reading Adam Smith and seems about to go legit. If he wasn't killed, what was next?

> ... contrary to ‘free market’ mythologies, those fortunes were made possible ultimately by the structures of kinship, class and race that allowed the #CantonGraduates to monopolize the American share of the nineteenth-century #OpiumTrade.

#DrugDealers #DrugTrade #SmokeAndAshes and #TheWire
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