“China was destroyed by legalized drugs. Millions died, their society collapsed, their economic output collapsed, the chaos allowed Dictator Mao to take power and kill millions more of them.”
The wrong type of legalized drugs.
Mao was able to take over China because of Japanese interference and Nationalist corruption.
And what is the "right type" of legalized drugs? I dare say if we make some legal and others not, there will come along people like you who will object to the illegality of whatever drugs we have made illegal. They will point to the legal ones and say "What about those?"
Also, how do you split hairs on your position such that you can postulate that there are a "right" type and a "wrong" type of legalized drugs? Isn't your entire premise that drugs should be legalized?
If you should object to some drugs being legalized, does not that put you in the role of the same nanny state nanny which you try to cast on myself and others?
Mao was able to take over China because of Japanese interference and Nationalist corruption.
Mao was able to take over China because their three thousand year old system of governance had collapsed as a result of the Chaos of legalized drugs. The Japanese were themselves importing hundreds of tons of Opium into China every year, and this helped to finance the Japanese war machine that later invaded.
Had China not been so weak, the much smaller Japan would have never attempted to invade it. It was weak because drugs destroyed it's vitality. Drugs destroyed the health of that nation.
China was suffering the upheavals that would beset any nation that had allowed such widespread addiction to come to it's population.