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Re:Deadly Chinese Fentanyl Is Creating a New Era of Drug Kin... by DanAndersen on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @05:30PM (#17138503)
The Chinese have a long memory of the effect that widespread drug addiction has on a nation and a people. It wasn't until Mao that the issue was addressed, and they were actually quite effective:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_opium_in_China#Unde...

>The Mao Zedong government is generally credited with eradicating both consumption and production of opium during the 1950s using unrestrained repression and social reform.[9][10] Ten million addicts were forced into compulsory treatment, dealers were executed, and opium-producing regions were planted with new crops.

I have my doubts that the West will be able to adequately deal with the issue. They don't seem to have the stomach for it.

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Re:Deadly Chinese Fentanyl Is Creating a New Era of Drug Kin... by jnbiche on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @05:45PM (#17138639)
> They don't seem to have the stomach for it.

Oh, and what would the West's "having the stomach" entail, exactly? Re-education camps? Execution for dealers?

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Re:Deadly Chinese Fentanyl Is Creating a New Era of Drug Kin... by SamReidHughes on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @08:44PM (#17139923)
Execution for dealers plus the ability of police to test you for drugs without probable cause.
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Re:Deadly Chinese Fentanyl Is Creating a New Era of Drug Kin... by beat on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @05:55PM (#17138717)
May the West always lack the stomach to do what Mao did.
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