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Re:Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health by refurb on Saturday November 07, 2020 @11:52AM (#25016216)
Canada had very harsh drug laws too (at least for hard drugs). And so did much of Europe.

Did all those countries also create those laws to harass certain populations?

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Re:Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health by masklinn on Saturday November 07, 2020 @11:58AM (#25016256)
How many did basically at the behest of the US? The US very much lead the crusade on drugs criminalisation after WWII.
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Re:Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health by disgruntledphd2 on Saturday November 07, 2020 @01:22PM (#25017093)
All of them, it's part of the founding UN treaties, as far as I know.
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Re:Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health by retrac on Saturday November 07, 2020 @03:46PM (#25019128)
The People's Republic of China has maintained its draconian anti-drug stance since before the international drug conventions of the 60s and 70s.

I would concur much of the puritanism and authoritarianism around the world about drugs originates from the US, but hardly all of it.

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Re:Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health by refurb on Sunday November 08, 2020 @09:58AM (#25026157)
They were actually agreed upon by the UN. It didn’t take the US to convince other countries to make drugs illegal.
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Re:Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health by rjknight on Saturday November 07, 2020 @12:10PM (#25016373)
In many cases yes: European attitudes towards the lower classes are often similar to (though not as extreme as) racist attitudes in the US.
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Re:Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health by tpxl on Saturday November 07, 2020 @12:52PM (#25016797)
Lots of European countries (and probably the rest of the world) also copy US laws for no apparent reason.

More or less everyone I know has tried drugs (MJ, magic mushrooms, LSD) or does them on a regular basis, but I don't know anyone who's ever been arrested over it. What I'm saying is there doesn't seem to be (much) of a stigma against drugs, neither with the population, nor with the cops. Nevertheless, MJ is illegal, and the protests for legalization started soon after the ones in the US.

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