Yes, this combined with the fact that US and British drug policy was exported everywhere in the 20th century, especially after WWII with the Single Convention o

Yes, this combined with the fact that US and British drug policy was exported everywhere in the 20th century, especially after WWII with the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (which morphed into UNDCP), and before that with the Paris Convention. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Convention_on_Narcotic_Drugs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Convention_on_Narcoti... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_for_Limiting_the_Manufacture_and_Regulating_the_Distribution_of_Narcotic_Drugs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_for_Limiting_the_...