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Re:Canada legalises recreational cannabis use by zajd on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @10:23AM (#17355648)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281296850_Drug_abus...

> The paper argues that Japan's 'war on drugs' in the 1980s was a direct result of pressure from the United States to adopt harsher sanctions and from a punitive Japanese public that associates drug use with poor self-control.

I think you'll find a similar story elsewhere

Re:Canada legalises recreational cannabis use by dalbasal on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @10:34AM (#17355753)
I suspect you will, if you're goal is to find a "connect the dots" narrative eminating from some centre. We can argue about which dots and which lines are more important, but before all that...

What is that centre, in nonsymbolic language? Actual people who consciously designed a plan to terrorise and marginalize minorities? I don't think that's what the op (or the writers he cites) are claiming. I suspect what they mean is more abstract. Something like:

The biases, concious or otherwise permeating society influenced the decision making in such a way as to... IE a personification.