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Or you are looking at this from an american perspective? Just guessing here. Everybody else on the planet figured out that prohibition doesn't work

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That's wrong, Asia (and large parts of Africa and Latin-America) are treating drugs more harshly than the US nowadays.

Yea the poster was being hyperbolic, but the Netherlands is pretty fine with drugs for personal use. Their problems seems to be the tools the site is selling for committing other crimes (forgeries) and the larger sellers (who often have ties to other more heinous crimes).

I'd be very careful reading about how laws in asian countries work in theory (on paper) without experience of what real life enforcement looks like.

Yeah right.

"Chinese Drug Dealers Are Being Sentenced to Death in Sports Stadiums and Public Squares"

http://www.newsweek.com/china-criminals-sentenced-death-spor...

[2015] "On Wednesday, China’s Supreme People’s Court argued that serious drug crimes merit the death penalty. Serious cases involving “drug lords, professional drug dealers or re-offenders” as well as “drug smuggling, organized transnational drug crime and armed or violent drug crime” should all receive capital sentences, according to a circular released by the SPC."

https://thediplomat.com/2015/05/chinas-growing-drug-problem/

The reality of the situation is if you are connected, privileged, and drop some gifts or hush money, you won’t face a thing.

They've a lot of catching up to do, per web-search [asia opium export]

Yet, people are still using them. Otherwise we wouldn't still hear stories about people being executed for smoking pot.

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