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    • KiaKaha [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Pretty much this.

      It’s unfortunate, and I favour the Portuguese model, but the Chinese model seems to have achieved results. Given the historical circumstances, it’s understandable.

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        It is worth consideration that the opium gangs in the time of Mao were more like warlords than gangs as we know them in the imperial core they were also responsible for several famines as people cannot eat opium and all the land given over to growing drugs grows no food

        although I remember reading somewhere that Mao implemented a policy of helping drug addicts recover while focusing on cracking down on dealers especially at high levels

        • Opposition [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          Drugs weren't grown in China. They were grown in India and Pakistan (was the same territory back then) and imported to China.

          • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            they were grown in China. The British when they were in the process of getting the Chinese addicted to opium grew the drugs in colonial India. However over time the British were largely pushed out of the Chinese opium market by domestic competition

          • Fishroot [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            there were actual Cash crops of opium during the sino-japanese war, a lot of japanese General made fortune in the trade (tojo iirc)

        • Fishroot [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          According to my Grand parents, that policy was implemented but i'm not sure what really happened with those people, I assume they were sent to a workcamps alongside some lumpen elements of society (ei: beggars and vagabonds)

    • Fishroot [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      had a discussion with my cousin in China about the issue.

      '' it would be easier to convince China to abandon reunification with Taiwan than to legalize drugs''