But seriously, why is cannabis illegal in cuba?

  • skeletorsass [she/her]
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    Communism and socialist transition are a process. A Communist party must be the revolutionary vanguard of the masses of the country, but material conditions are different. A party is not a monolithic controlled by one man. It is many people acting as one. It is much easier to always have the correct line in an armchair in the imperial core than it is to correct a wrong line across a whole party.

    Drug laws specifically have a long history of influence and force by imperial core nations.

    • space_comrade [he/him]
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      Or, you know, you can just admit that they sometimes get things wrong without the mental gymnastics and apologetics.

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        This does mean that things are wrong?? What I am saying is that a party can have a wrong line because of this. Correcting a line takes time and effort. It is not magical. This is the opposite of an apology.

        Communists can be wrong and must work to correct this, but many netizens in the west reject these parties which do not hold the correct line at a given moment with no regard for them as humans with inner national politics.

      • Keegs [any]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah but no. I think at this point we're speculation on the cultural significance of drugs in their society. Is weed something Cuban's actually want? Even if so shouldn't significant consideration be made through the lens of opposing the global economic order?

        • AStonedApe [they/them]
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          Regardless if the people want weed or not, they shouldn't be imprisoning people for possession.