[Wolfie]

Yeah, because nobody has the moral high ground like the Chinese.

[DiogenesLamp]

I've been pointing out what Opium did to China on all of these drug threads that I happen to find.

Legalized Drugs are an existential threat to the survival of a nation. China showed us what happens with a real world experiment.

[CharlesOConnell]

Marijuana users may have ‘false memories’: Brain scans reveal how cannabis smokers can live in their own reality

• Brains scans showed cannabis users have a less active hippocampus
• This is the area that is associated with storing and retrieving memories
• Memory problems persisted months after someone stopped smoking

ByEllie Zolfagharifard For Dailymail.com

Published: 17:21 EST, 22 April 2015 | Updated: 19:16 EST, 23 April 2015

[Organic Panic]

Don't harsh my mellow, man.

[ConservingFreedom]

At the local level is exactly where these decisions should be made.

[chajin]

Sometimes you can be right being Wong

[familyop]

How China got rid of opium
http://www.sacu.org/opium.html

The people were all for it. Participation was very popular. They have suffered more than enough damage to have done it with or without the approval of any dictatorship.

[familyop]

...had suffered more than enough damage, even.

[USMCPOP]

When I was in Thailand ‘77-’80, there was pot around. But it seemed to be a low-class kind of thing to do. I can understand the villagers who were 20 miles from the nearest electricity doing it to ward off boredom (or embrace it). I think they made green chicken soup sometimes.