• Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    know I’ll get called a chauvinist but i wish China would take a more progressive domestic stance on drugs.

    it's understandable why china's drug policy the way it is because of history. it's fine to wish they and the US and everyone else had the drug policy we wish everyone had as long as you acknowledge the first part and that boomers are going to boomer.

      • Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Honestly not sure the Opium War is that influential on China’s modern drug policy; they’ve got identical policies to pretty much everywhere else in the world, especially prior to recent liberalisation around cannabis in some places.

        america did a lot to export their racist demonization of weed. I don't know specific citations of "here's why we did it" talking about colonial opium but it would be weirder if that wasn't informing attitudes 70 years ago.