lmao
I get that asia has had a bad history with drugs given the opium trade and wars, but it’d be nice if there was some wiggle room on decriminalizing marijuana at least.
Just because it was taught in high school doesn’t mean most ppl in the region care/remember about the opium wars other than it being a history lesson except for chinese nationalists in order to justify China’s return to NEP-style capitalism(century of humiliation, amirite?)
Most cannabis bans are relics from colonial governments and the drug laws in Asia are also influenced by the multiple(3) UN conventions on drugs.
On the local joint, there is some wiggle room with even Catholic bishops being OK for it in medical use, and a bill in 2014 proposing decriminalization. Unlikely to pass because of the sham drug war theater [(to justify the increased spending of police pensions and social control(eliminating the poor and any political dissident which they can frame as a drug user/pusher later, they even implemented a monthly quota system of drug users to be punished(killed, imprisoned or by other means ffs)] by Duterte, continued by Marcos Jr.
Of course South Korean media reference the opium wars. They reference Radio Free Asia too. So what? Just because media references something doesn’t mean it’s the baseline knowledge of people in the street. If the media references Foucalt in an OpEd does it mean everybody knows about the panopticon?
I mean you’re bringing up “catholic bishops”
The OP was interested about the wiggle room in Asia. Didn’t know it was Asia was East Asia exclusive. I don’t even care about if Asians care about Catholic bishops. Because for sure most Asians know about what a “bishop” is compared to what an “opium war” is.
too preoccupied with regurgitating liberal apologia for apologia for western colonists
Already explained that most drug laws are remnants from Western colonial governments.
(probably from those catholic bishops, slave religion amirite) .
Jesus fucking Christ just because I mention someone doesn’t mean I actually support them. If I say something about Hitler’s views on veganism doesn’t mean I support Hitler.
I know my country’s opium history. It’s even referenced by my revolutionary literati(Binondo, Jose Rizal). Do you even know yours?
