While it is a complex socio-political issue, there is a valid position that China has parallel cultural norms - political structures that maintain significant c

While it is a complex socio-political issue, there is a valid position that China has parallel cultural norms - political structures that maintain significant control over the private sphere, a high social premium placed on order and low individualism. It makes sense that a society with those values, along with Confucian history, would ban drugs.