In 1949 when Mao took charge narcotics users were sent to reeducation/work camps. They were given thirty days to come clean. As for pushers, they were executed. As for growers, they were executed, except for the ethnic minorities in the south where some production for local use was overlooked for years.
If regular people realized how much this was costing them, they would be outraged. Like, really outraged.
Instead we get inundated with feel bad for the addict programs.
Here is the revenue source fir all the Chinese drug trade .
Buy up property with the DRUG CASH .