I have to keep reminding myself that China’s drug policy has its origin in historical trauma and the opinions of its people reflects that. They really think weed is like heroin or something it’s tragic.

Gonna go smoke some weed about it

  • Blakey [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 month ago

    I remember on the old subreddit trying to explain to a Chinese user that the War on Drugs is bad, and they could NOT let it go. I was trying to explain that, no, “the war on drugs” isn’t a generic thing but rather a specific and very cruel and racist piece of, specifically American, legislation, and they kept on going “but you don’t understand the opium wars”. No amount of “china doesn’t have ‘the war on drugs’” was getting through to them. Very odd experience.