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It's hard to look at what other countries do in response to drug addiction because the United States pushes very hard for them to join in on its drug war and ma
by filoeleven 11y ago
It's hard to look at what other countries do in response to drug addiction because the United States pushes very hard for them to join in on its drug war and maintain its status quo. This should be surprising to no one. Only in the past decade or so have people in other countries (Switzerland for example) really begun to push back and say, "this doesn't work, we have the data to show what does, we are going to do that instead."
- mc32 11y agoI find it hard to believe Russia, China, Venezuela and others would take suggestions from the US with regard to internal politics. I think what happened was that drugs started to emerge from the underground shadows in the early 20th cent. People, politicians, etc. got spooked and being ignorant of how to best address (as we still are but understand some aspects better) took a hard stance against its proliferation into the general population. This was followed by any strong central government. Here and everywhere. It's odd to see this framed as if it only happened because it affected minorities when the same policies happened in other countries with no minorities and countries where minorities are the majority and make the laws.