British forces raised the Union Jack over Possession Point in 1841 during the First Opium War, fought to protect the Queen's trade of the narcotic.
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There may also be rows over how to deal with the lucrative trade in qat, a narcotic leaf that many Somalis chew and which is flown into Mogadishu daily from Kenya and Ethiopia, perhaps accounting for as much as half the city's cash economy.