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Alcohol and Nicotine both stimulate economic activity (Spending/Drinking and Smoking/Working). Weed is so demonized because it makes the user "lazy" aka content and happy, which has no economic value.

Capitalists only begrudgingly half-accepted weed once they realized the sheer profit and taxes that were being missed out on due to the popularity of the drug. It's pacifying and chilling-out effects now also have a secondary benefit, like Fentanyl and other opiates, of keeping the masses subdued and not revolting. That wasn't as big of a concern when things were better economically and socially, so there was more latitude for punishing weed to enforce productivity and economic growth. Now things are going to shit so weed has become a lot more functional and acceptable.

For a bourgie this is the order of preference for the state of their prole populations:

Best: Working hard, spending hard (Alcohol / Nicotine / Amphetamines / Cocaine / SSRIs) - these drugs are legal or rarely enforced

Next Best: Drugs for self-reflection, religious experience, growth, partying, overcoming trauma, artistic endeavors (Shrooms / Acid / MDMA / Ayahuasca / etc) - OK for "vacation" on occasion, they can be weaponized and used to increase productivity like micro-dosing acid. Occasional use is OK or even encouraged, continual repeated use is frowned upon.

Mid: "Lazy" and subdued, not generating economic activity but not actively causing unrest (Weed / Fentanyl / Opiates) - these drugs are demonized but still pushed on impoverished populations to keep them under control

2nd to worst: Dead / OD / Heavily Addicted to the point of being useless at anything else (Fentanyl but more of it / Alcohol but more of it / Crack / Other Hard Drugs) - whoops we pushed too hard

Worst: Rioting / Revolting - Somebody drug these folks!

Things in China right now are pretty good materially and getting better every day, so there's more emphasis on punishing "laziness" drugs that subdue the user. If conditions get sharply worse in China and civil unrest becomes more common, you may see these drugs tolerated more openly as more of the population resorts to self-medicating to deal with it.

I'm not even saying the bourgies are purposefully doing this, these populations are drugging themselves based on the conditions they find themselves in. The bourgies do control drug policy of the state though, which does have an effect, and there is a reason that the US government is the #1 drug dealer on Earth. They are also the #1 punisher of drug users. That's the two sides of the vice by which they grip us.

Liberals and normies often hear the "US is the #1 drug dealer on Earth" fact and disregard it (or accept it but don't truly internalize it) because they think "that can't be right, that same entity hates drugs so much! they are famously cruel at cracking down on drugs." They do not understand dialectics to realize that the US government purposefully contains this contradiction as a method of control. The farthest they will ever get is to call the US government "hypocritical" for this contradictory policy, as if it's some character flaw and not a purposeful strategy of tension.