It's crazy how one of the oldest cultivated crop in human history suddenly becomes the most hated worldwide because of this single action, all because some brainlet US fundies thinks the devil's lettuce will send them to super hell or something. Imagine if the Mormons took over USA and force the world into banning hot drinks, and in just a few decade everyone views hot drinks as this great evil that must be destroyed.
the longstanding reason that other countries didn't institute their own more permissive drug laws were because the US would presumably penalize them but with Cuba it's definitely something else keeping them from changing it. I presume it's mostly because it's not a huge issue for the ruling class there especially compared with political dissent problems since nobody is going to give you international court bullshit over following international treaties you all signed... but at this point it probably is changing sooner than later.
so the way it's commonly framed is that if you start to violate a treaty that you signed then all the treaties that you signed would come into question; in practice it was because US drug enforcement would get real pissy if you weren't trying to extradite the local narcos so you just kept handing them over in return for the continued guns and shit. or in the absence of investment, the local conservative ruling parties would generally keep wanting to have the ability to use drug war BS to enforce their will just like how the US did. so you basically see this fractal where it's the US drug war on smaller and smaller scales each one being a little different from the next
why is it still illegal almost everywhere but parts of the place that started the war on drugs 🤔
It's pretty much all from this fucking treaty the US bullied everyone into signing
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Or the original sin, the br*t*sh
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I learned it from you! Okay?
I think some of this even comes into religion and the reformation's no fun BS
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It's crazy how one of the oldest cultivated crop in human history suddenly becomes the most hated worldwide because of this single action, all because some brainlet US fundies thinks the devil's lettuce will send them to super hell or something. Imagine if the Mormons took over USA and force the world into banning hot drinks, and in just a few decade everyone views hot drinks as this great evil that must be destroyed.
I know mormons avoid caffeine and alcohol (and other drugs) but they don't drink hot water?
You're a homie
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the longstanding reason that other countries didn't institute their own more permissive drug laws were because the US would presumably penalize them but with Cuba it's definitely something else keeping them from changing it. I presume it's mostly because it's not a huge issue for the ruling class there especially compared with political dissent problems since nobody is going to give you international court bullshit over following international treaties you all signed... but at this point it probably is changing sooner than later.
Do you have more information on what forms the US pressure on other countries took? This is very interesting thank you!
so the way it's commonly framed is that if you start to violate a treaty that you signed then all the treaties that you signed would come into question; in practice it was because US drug enforcement would get real pissy if you weren't trying to extradite the local narcos so you just kept handing them over in return for the continued guns and shit. or in the absence of investment, the local conservative ruling parties would generally keep wanting to have the ability to use drug war BS to enforce their will just like how the US did. so you basically see this fractal where it's the US drug war on smaller and smaller scales each one being a little different from the next