Re:What If U.S. Cities Just Stopped Participating in the War...
by chrischen on Sunday May 18, 2014 @02:38AM
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While true for a lot of countries, this not true for China, which have probably stricter drug policies (with the exception of maybe alcohol). China would not let itself be dictated by US policies.
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Re:What If U.S. Cities Just Stopped Participating in the War...
by dragonwriter on Sunday May 18, 2014 @12:24PM
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Well, yeah, there are a number of countries that have their own parallels to some or all aspects of the US motivations for the war on drugs -- particularly as part of a broader militaristic centralization of authority, the racism involved in the US war on drugs is a less-common motivation -- and don't need to be pressured by the US. There's also religious authoritarianism in, e.g., the Islamic world, though that often overlaps with militaristic centralization.
My point was that a lot of the countries where there may not be direct domestic parallels to the US motivations still have a War on Drugs as a product of the same motivations because they do so as a result of US pressure.
Re:What If U.S. Cities Just Stopped Participating in the War...
by chrischen on Sunday May 18, 2014 @03:37PM
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Right. And what you end up seeing is that all disparate cultures, religions, non-religions, have concluded that they need to control drugs, in order to control the people. When Opium was unleashed China it just allowed the British to control the people.