Rule 4: Do not promote or put drugs/alcohol/tobacco/weed/psychedelics/inhalants in a positive light.
Some comrades mentioned in private channels that weed is not addictive, I’m not going to argue on this point because this is a fundamental divide between China and some western countries.
My view is that whether you’re addicted to them or not, you shouldn’t promote these substances or put them in a positive light. It’s fine if you don’t agree with me, but anyone who leaves a comment here arguing the opposite will be banned from the community (30 days for now).
If a lot of people oppose this rule, either by downvotes and/or number of comments, I will willingly step down as moderator of this community.
I see nothing wrong with this given the context of China, so long as it’s applied with context in mind. It’s hard to think of a specific example and I don’t want to be just inventing wild hypotheticals, but if conversation were to organically go to some country’s drug policy that has a different historical context (such as the US and how it vilified drug use in order to do mass incarceration), I would hope you’d be understanding of the reaction to that in the US context. The same as others being understanding of the reaction to drug use / culture / policy in the China context. I would not expect you to be ok with others actively promoting drug use with such a context as an excuse to do so. I just wouldn’t want someone to get a ban because they come from a different context and don’t know the difference, so I’d hope you at least warn them first in such a case. Hope that makes sense.