[mickotron]

You’re looking at history through a very Western lens. In other cultures, some substances were ritualistic and culturally important.

[rayiner]

Or an East Asian lens: https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/ce/cgvienna/eng/ljzg/zfbps/t127411.... ("The Chinese government believes that drugs are a worldwide public hazard confronting the whole of mankind, and drug control is an imminent and common responsibility incumbent to international society.")

Or a South Asian lens: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bangladesh-drugs/banglade... ("Bangladesh sets death penalty for drug offences in draft law")

Or an African lens: https://fileserver.idpc.net/library/Drug-laws-in-West-Africa... ("In Nigeria, the death penalty for drug-related offenses was replaced by life imprisonment in 1986.")

[mickotron]

Either way, the comment I replied to tried represent a whole of humanity stance on something, since the dawn of civilisation, that is clearly false.

We can both come up with examples to suit our viewpoint. I didn’t say that person was wrong. I just said that person was being selective.