That makes sense. But still, tons of countries criminalize hemp as a material even with negligible THC levels. Which is bullshit even if you think recreational cannabis is bad.
As someone who loves smokin me some weed is there any info i could read on ussr relationship with growing/using cannabis? I know China doesn’t really take too kindly to it, which sucks, I hate that any country will let you get drunk off your ass and choke down cigarettes but will criminalize weed. Not shame to China I’m a #1 Stan in just curious, I’d be curious to know more about weed & China too
There’s a strong cultural aversion in China to drugs in general (in large part due to the trauma of the Opium Wars) that need to be overcome for cannabis to be accepted, and there are signs that some progress is being made albiet very very slowly. But like you said it’s indeed a contradiction that alcohol and tobacco is much more normalized. I think a lot of the heavy handed drug enforcement in China is conflated to be due to socialism, but IMO it’s more due to culture and the socialist government, as any government should, conforms to the will of the majority on this issue. So the majority opinion/culture needs to shift first, kind of like the path toward legalization in Canada was in response to a similar cultural shift in its population. Am Chinese but don’t live in China so this is second hand information though.
That makes sense. But still, tons of countries criminalize hemp as a material even with negligible THC levels. Which is bullshit even if you think recreational cannabis is bad.
As someone who loves smokin me some weed is there any info i could read on ussr relationship with growing/using cannabis? I know China doesn’t really take too kindly to it, which sucks, I hate that any country will let you get drunk off your ass and choke down cigarettes but will criminalize weed. Not shame to China I’m a #1 Stan in just curious, I’d be curious to know more about weed & China too
There’s a strong cultural aversion in China to drugs in general (in large part due to the trauma of the Opium Wars) that need to be overcome for cannabis to be accepted, and there are signs that some progress is being made albiet very very slowly. But like you said it’s indeed a contradiction that alcohol and tobacco is much more normalized. I think a lot of the heavy handed drug enforcement in China is conflated to be due to socialism, but IMO it’s more due to culture and the socialist government, as any government should, conforms to the will of the majority on this issue. So the majority opinion/culture needs to shift first, kind of like the path toward legalization in Canada was in response to a similar cultural shift in its population. Am Chinese but don’t live in China so this is second hand information though.
Agreed!