(or are they? have I been disinfo'd?)
I am of the opinion that the drug war is evil: cops and jails ruining someone's life because of a recreational activity. And the evidence shows it does more harm than good, not stuff I have to go over again.
But DPRK and China are harsh on drugs, not sure about Cuba.
What's up with that?
First counterargument that comes to my mind is a lot of capitalist countries are very harsh on drugs as well, like the very capitalist Singapore, so you couldn't draw a correlation. What other counterarguments should a comrade consider?
NWBCW https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_War_but_the_Class_War
(historical materialist scientists crying)
Fun fact: their raw, natural tobacco has less chemical additives and fewer incidences of cancer compared to the Big Tobacco "blended tobacco product" designed by McKinsey be addictive and cancerous. Woke radlibs called Biden racist for banning and oppressing these "small consumer joys" which is a very Pete Buttigieg style rhetoric neoliberal argument which ignores "workers" in favor of "consumers in the free market". Imagine spending the last ten years scolding people about "black lives matter" despite cheering 40000 black wage slaves dying of cancer each year. Echoing the incessant free markets think tank corpo funded propaganda about "getting kids addicted to flavored vapes is harm reduction, actually".
Its literally bullshit. The Tobacco itself is not less cancerous than the additives(this myth originally comes from 'natural' tobacco manufacturers in the West)
And combined with the common myth (in China) that Chinese people are less susceptible to lung cancer...