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You're leaving out a big reason, those countries have a much more traditional "collectivism" and has a cultural phenomenon called saving face. Those bring down

• zarzavat 2y ago
  People still do drugs but they do it behind closed doors because otherwise they would be immediately caught and sent to prison for a long time. Because drug use is forced into private spaces, the rest of society is able to maintain strong cultural norms against drug use and the system maintains a steady state. The west's approach is kind of the opposite: actively go after the sources of drugs, and to leave the users relatively alone. On a moral level this is appealing because the users are victims. However on a practical level it doesn't seem to work as well because it's swimming against the economic current.
  • 0dayz 2y ago
    Well yes and no but the big difference is that we used to do both, chase after the user and the seller. We have slowly realized this doesn't really work. Instead we are moving towards harm reduction but that's easier said than done and I think we will see a new approach towards drug selling.