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

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    Weed is so demonized because it makes the user “lazy” aka content and happy, which has no economic value.

    Weed is demonised because of American racism, and their brain worms getting exported. People are equally not working on vodka, but you can’t pretend beer is the brown and blacks polluting the white nation

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      you can’t pretend beer is the brown and blacks polluting the white nation

      Becoming a send-em-all-back guy but only for Meopotamians. Not Iraqi people either, only the OGs

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      So weed is tightly controlled in China because of racism? So are you saying they are more racist than the current West is since they are more tightly controlling? Or is there another explanation?

      Also, I didn’t claim alcohol makes people work better. It makes them spend better.

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        So weed is tightly controlled in China because of racism?

        Partly because of American racism. The crackdown on weed specifically began wordwide in the Nixon era as a result of Nixon needing a thing to rally around, the west went along because of the big hegemon and thus a precedent is set. Social conservates doesn’t want to let go of the prohibition because of associated stereotypes, the now existing links to criminality, and just because they’re social conservatives.

        It makes them spend better.

        There are so many stores catering to potheads.

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            I don’t know a way to respond to this that isn’t just calling you names. Go back and redo whatever train of thought lead you this post.

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              the train of thought known as dialectical materialism instead of “america mind controlled China to be racist but forgot to un-mind control them after America got less racist I guess, since China is incapable of making any social progress as fast as the west”