> We can see though that drugs outlawed in the US are pretty much universally illegal, including in countries that are ethnically homogeneous, and in countries that are overwhelmingly black. The fact that the illegality of narcotics is basically invariant to whether racism is even a plausible motive for it in a society pretty strongly su…
> We can see though that drugs outlawed in the US are pretty much universally illegal, including in countries that are ethnically homogeneous, and in countries that are overwhelmingly black. The fact that the illegality of narcotics is basically invariant to whether racism is even a plausible motive for it in a society pretty strongly suggests are drug laws would still exist in the US in fairly similar form even if no American was ever racist or even if black people were never brought to America.
Another interpretation is that America is so influential internationally that a lot of other countries are willing to follow its lead on drug policy.
China outlawed opium way before the US dud. Only one data point but the outlawing of opiates certainly goes back a long way in most countries, before America’s postwar hegemony.
> We can see though that drugs outlawed in the US are pretty much universally illegal, including in countries that are ethnically homogeneous, and in countries that are overwhelmingly black. The fact that the illegality of narcotics is basically invariant to whether racism is even a plausible motive for it in a society pretty strongly suggests are drug laws would still exist in the US in fairly similar form even if no American was ever racist or even if black people were never brought to America.
Another interpretation is that America is so influential internationally that a lot of other countries are willing to follow its lead on drug policy.
China outlawed opium way before the US dud. Only one data point but the outlawing of opiates certainly goes back a long way in most countries, before America’s postwar hegemony.