About the “ American idiocy upon stupidity”.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/17/asia/china-us-marijuana-smuggling-intl-hnk/index.html
China severely punishes those caught smuggling or trafficking drugs, including foreigners. Anyone found with more than 50 grams (1.76 ounces) of a controlled substance can face the death penalty.
China has stepped up its efforts to combat the sale of illegal drugs in recent years. Authorities in major cities, including Beijing,
have been known to carry out spot drug tests at bars and nightclubs in a bid to clamp down on recreational drug use.
The move puts it at odds with North America, where cannabis has increasing levels of social acceptance.
LOL!
Did you even read your own link?
Liu Yuejin, deputy director of the China National Narcotics Control Commission, said that the number of cannabis users in China had grown by more than 25% in 2018, rising to about 24,000 people.
24K marijuana users among 1.4B people.
Linking to one article about a topic you know nothing about isn't the same as knowing anything about a topic.
I can explain to you why and how that 24K number is questionable and/or inaccurate.
Marijuana is available but relatively scarce in Shanghai. Hashish is much more widely available, which I assume is separately categorized from marijuana. Many young Uighurs who are Muslims and not supposed to drink are frequent hashish smokers. And they frequently are self-employed selling BBQ meat under on the street, and when foreigners walk by they frequently offer hashish (either they sell it or one of their friends do). I've hung around with Uighurs and they tend to have significant quantities of hashish. Oh and the gov't does little or nothing about it. Prior to the recent crackdown on Uighurs, any found with hashish in Shanghai used to be put on trains and sent back to far west Xinjiang, hardly draconian.
China isn't Indonesia or Singapore on the no-tolerance-for-drugs scale. Only those selling/distributing large amounts of drugs face harsh sentences.
As for any tests or whatever occurring in bar raids. This is most likely very sporadic and occasional. But such harassment of foreign bars has a number of sources -- sometimes local police looking for bribes, sometimes just a general check on morality (drinking, late night activity, prostitution), neighbors complaining of noise, etc. But there is a minor tradition of harassing bars and bar patrons. In the early 2000's, the police would occasionally show up at a bar after midnight and demand to see foreigners passports (in China all citizens are supposed to carry their nat'l ID card at all times, and foreigners carry their passports, which of course almost none do). Usually the police would leave if at least 2 or 3 foreigners could produce a passport, which shows what a charade the whole thing was. Sometimes they'd want a bribe (might or might not get one), most often just wanted to throw their weight around (intimating they could close the bar down for violations in the future), or just register general official disapproval of late night drinking (they seem sensitive about foreigners and Chinese together).
I'd bet any drug raid at a bar was mostly of this type.
Marijuana is a very minor issue in China, but hashish isn't major but a much more prevalent drug.
But of course Red isn't interested in factual information or learning anything.
Actually it's pretty amusing how those here on the Left rely on facts and experts and citations and folks like red, kiid, luee respond to such information by ignoring it or mockery.
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