• Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Honestly not sure the Opium War is that influential on China’s modern drug policy; they’ve got identical policies to pretty much everywhere else in the world, especially prior to recent liberalisation around cannabis in some places.

    america did a lot to export their racist demonization of weed. I don't know specific citations of "here's why we did it" talking about colonial opium but it would be weirder if that wasn't informing attitudes 70 years ago.