please Xi, reclaim the mantle of destiny, cannabis with chinese characteristics could be a potent global force for good
"the plants were placed on heated stones in the braziers to produce smoke during ceremonies connected with burial of the dead."
Hotboxing is older than Jesus
i think for understandable historical reasons drugs are not very well accepted in China and probably wont be for a while, tho i think a large % of ppl do smoke weed in china? china is actually the largest producer of hemp and cbd in the world
There is some irony in now the Brits forced opium on China through war but a few centuries later the US has hooked like a quarter of it's own citizens on opiates just for the profit.
Cannabis in modern China is mostly associated with Uygher people smoking hash. Drug use in general is pretty frowned upon outside of Euro/Anglosphere countries mainly because of colonial-imposed laws that cracked down on drugs from the 20th century Progressive era (thanks libs!)
55 ethnicities, many of whom live in the mountainous regions, and no one smokes weed? Seems hard to believe.
Taking a few edibles has turned me into the most Stereotypical Stoner Imaginable but I can't for the life of me understand why this shit is illegal anywhere, never mind everywhere. In the US the war on drugs is obviously heavily racialized, but why does nearly every country on earth ban weed?
https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/treaties/index.html
The UN has treaties requiring members to make drugs illegal.
After WWII, DuPont had nylon, but hemp was a superior fiber. They flexed their muscles, had hemp banned, and presto, a huge market for their new product.
I've never seen any evidence that this is true. My understanding is that the Prohibition enforcement people, at risk of losing their jobs on account of Prohibition ending, moved to criminalize other drugs, ultimately settling on cannabis because basically only Black and Mexican people used it at the time. That made it easy to convince white people to ban it with heavy-handed propaganda like Reefer Madness.
The source is probably going to be that book The Emperor Wears No Clothes, by Jack Herer. I am aware of no academic sources which agree with that book, however, and as a cannabis enthusiast myself, I've always been annoyed at the extensive misinformation passed along in the weed community.
Imagine smoking strains named from passages of classical Chinese literature
Once China legalizes weed, every big American movie will have to have 5 minutes of weed jokes to appeal to Chinese sensibilities.
Every film will have a scene where they do fat bong rips or however weed will be used in China.
Do not pass go, do not collect $200, go directly to the mushroom goddess for she is the mother of consciousness.
Due to recent history with opium I don't see recreational usage happening any time soon, in that context I totally sympathize.
Hopefully the world as a whole including China will expand growing areas for industrial hemp due to its practical uses, regulate it as much as required for social-historic sensibility, low THC cultivars, etc. For example, hemp paper has less water consumption than tree paper, not to mention a few months vs a few yrs. There's also other building and packing materials made from hemp which will be useful in getting away from plastics and other petrol products, even og stuff like canvas is good. Won't save us from ourselves ofc, but its a tool we have.
Did they do it to get high, or for the well-known hemp fibers, which are pretty much the best thing to make rope out of?
I'm guessing hemp fibers. The only reason it was banned in the US was to help DuPont, which had come out with nylon fiber at the time. But it wasn't as good as hemp, so they flexed their muscle and made it happen.
