England’s national flower is the red Tudor rose. But the prickly truth is that the English owe much of their wealth to another flower; the poppy. The British empire was bankrolled by the highly addictive drug opium, the milky fluid of the flower of the breadseed poppy (papaver somniferum). During the 1800s the empire managed … Lire la suite de ‘A splendid income’: The world’s greatest drug cartel