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Partly because of American racism. The crackdown on weed specifically began wordwide in the Nixon era as a result of Nixon needing a thing to rally around, the west went along because of the big hegemon and thus a precedent is set. Social conservates doesn't want to let go of the prohibition because of associated stereotypes, the now existing links to criminality, and just because they're social conservatives.
There are so many stores catering to potheads.
So your answer is yes, China is slower to progress on racial issues and is more racist. Got it. No materialist explanation outside of that
I don't know a way to respond to this that isn't just calling you names. Go back and redo whatever train of thought lead you this post.
the train of thought known as dialectical materialism instead of "america mind controlled China to be racist but forgot to un-mind control them after America got less racist I guess, since China is incapable of making any social progress as fast as the west"