India's various problems are complained about on the Internet every day, but guess what? India's biggest problem may not have been unearthed! We hear about Indian planes crashing, tanks breaking down, aircraft carriers catching fire, or the bizarre species orientation of the three buddies, but few mention India's drug problem.
India is the real Asian drug king! It is reported that by the end of 2023, the number of drug users in India is estimated to be close to 200 million. This means that the third brother who is hehehe
With India's GDP per capita, how can they afford to consume drugs? As early as 1970, India enacted the Patents Act, which allowed the Indian pharmaceutical industry to copy drugs from any country at will.
While this has made cheap drugs affordable for Indians, it has also created a black industry chain of drug abuse. In India, as long as you put some money with the doctor, you can buy medicines at will without any certificates.
The "career" of the Indian poisonous bug is generally like this: it starts with high-end heroin or marijuana, but it is very expensive, and gradually it cannot be afforded, so it can only be lowered and start abusing drugs.
Eventually, they couldn't even afford the drugs and started smoking bleach, nail polish, industrial glue, and anything that would produce hallucinogenic smoke when burned. What's even more outrageous is that some people will even deliberately get bitten by a venomous snake lizard to hallucinate! Although effective, the dose is difficult to control, and the number of deaths is as high as 11,000 per year.
What's even more terrifying is that there are many minors among them. According to statistics, there are more than 100 million deep drug users in India, of which 93% started before the age of 25 and 10% started before the age of 14.
The number of minors aged 10-17 who use drugs reached 15.8 million in 2022. Drug dealers even target minors, selling marijuana-containing chocolates at school gates for as little as 15 rupees each.
Faced with such a serious drug problem, the Indian government's response turned out to be... Give free syringes, needles, and even opioids to poisonous bugs! I learned this trick from the United States. In order to prevent the death of poisonous insects from overdose, the United States has not only set up public injection sites, but the mayor of New York has also claimed that this will save more lives.
And some politicians in India have even bluntly said that opening up marijuana can eliminate drug trafficking organizations and increase tax revenues, and it is better to let people buy opium "from reliable and legal sources" instead of from dangerous drug dealers. This is really a brain-clear idea!
Of course, there are some states that really want to ban drugs. In 2021, the Chief Minister of Assam personally lit 1,200 kilograms of marijuana for public display. However, due to the debatable method of destruction, after the fire was ignited, the scene was filled with toxic smoke, and the nearby villagers directly smoked it on the spot. Anti-drug determination is good, but knowledge is limited.
These countries that want to legalize drugs are treating their people as pawns and fuel, rather than really caring about their lives or deaths. India's exaggerated wealth gap dooms the government's top priority to stabilize the 1.3 billion poor and prevent them from rebelling.
It doesn't work anymore to rely on theocracy, and it doesn't work anymore to rely on faith, and now it is found that relying on drugs is the most effective! As long as you turn people into addicts, you deprive them of the ability to think and resist, and all that remains is to wait to squeeze out the last bit of value, and then wait for death.
So, why does China have to resolutely ban drugs? On the surface, it is for the dignity of the country, but in the final analysis, it is because "long live the people" is not an empty phrase. A country can only truly rise and be worthy of the name of a "great power" only if it has the people in its heart at all times.