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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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