This world has finally become crazy into what we dare not imagine. For a long time in the past, whenever Germany is mentioned, our first impression will be that it is an industrial power, as well as the rigor and responsibility of the Germans. Although this has been proven to be just a ridiculous rumor, it can be circulated for many years, and there must be a certain basis for reality.
But now, as the Russian-Ukrainian conflict enters its third year, Germany's natural gas with Russia has been completely cut off, and Germany's status as a so-called industrial power has been greatly shaken. In order to make up for the loss of not being able to buy Russian gas, they had to turn to the Middle East and the United States to buy more expensive liquefied natural gas, which directly led to a surge in production costs and a decline in product competitiveness, and a large number of core enterprises either went bankrupt or ran into the United States.
These companies are an important tax base in Germany, and they have stopped doing it, so in 2023, Germany's GDP growth rate will begin to grow negatively, and the ** deficit that has not been seen for many years has become the norm. In this case, according to our ordinary understanding, Scholz should find a way to revitalize the real economy, right, but instead of doing so, they made another decision that even many Germans did not understand, making Germany the country with the most relaxed control policy in Europe.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz).
A few days ago, the German Bundestag passed a bill with 407 votes in favor, 226 votes against and 4 abstentions, allowing individuals and non-profit groups to grow or hold a limited number of **, which will enter into force on March 22. The core content of the bill is that each person will be allowed to legally grow no more than three ** crops, and "clubs" with no more than 25 grams**, and no more than 500 people, will be allowed to engage in larger-scale production and cultivation, but not commercially, only for the club's own consumption, of course, the club must not accept minors.
In the eyes of our countrymen, this kind of bill is completely incomprehensible. ** is one of the top three drugs in the world, and it is reasonable to implement zero-tolerance bans. But in Western countries, with the poison of neoliberalism in recent decades, the promotion of legalization seems to have become a fashionable thing for politicians. In the past, there were dozens of states in Canada and the United States, and then there were Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland and other countries in Europe, and now Germany has also become a "rising star".
The German Minister of Health supports ** legalization).
According to Germany's health minister, he took the lead in pushing the bill to "crack down on the black market" and "protect minors." This is unconscionable, and anyone with a discerning eye can see that **legalization will further promote the expansion of drug addicts, even before the promulgation of the bill, according to statistics, 4.5 million people in Germany have taken **. Once the cultivation industry becomes large-scale, the addictive nature of ** will become more active or passive in Germans, and thus the whole German society will fall into a vicious circle of expanding drug addicts. The "zombie streets" in Portland, Philadelphia and other places in the United States, which shocked the world's social ** before, are a lesson from the past.
So, why don't the ** in Western countries ban drugs? There are two main reasons1. They do not believe that it is the responsibility of the people to protect the lives and safety of the peopleYou take drugs until your family is ruined, and it's a matter of. A similar case, the background of the guns in the United States, is that the police do not protect the lives and property of citizens. 2. The best in Western countries also covet the high profits of the drug industry.
You see, Germany has clearly stated in the bill that they have no desire to protect the people by cracking down on the "black industry chain", but by protecting the people's desire to accumulate wealth, not only does it have, but it is also very big. In the West, the high profits of the industry have long made the eyes of the first at all levels covetous, and a large number of vested interest groups have been formed in the entire industrial chain. These people have enough money to buy off and lobby key figures in the so-called "democratically elected" legislature, as well as in the department. Once it is legal, they don't have to worry about the blow, and they can also work together to make money, and the tax they pay is not a tax, but a protection fee for them.
As for whether the people will be hurt by this, they don't care, in the United States, ** legal is even a weapon for Democratic politicians to pull votes, because even if they are addicted to drugs, voters can vote, and they will naturally vote for politicians who support their "high".
Biden's son also has a drug-related scandal).
China's zero-tolerance attitude towards drugs comes from the great harm that drugs have done to Chinese society in modern times. In the late Qing Dynasty, the large import of opium led to a huge outflow of China, a decline in the combat effectiveness of the army, and a malaise in the whole society. This painful historical memory makes us extremely strict in drug control, and it is ironic that it was the Western powers who sold opium to China in the first place, and now a hundred years later, they surrendered to drugs one after another, and have embarked on the road of "Great Qinghua".This kind of self-depraved behavior is precisely a microcosm of the sinking of the entire Western society since the financial crisis.
From the perspective of historical experience, the relaxation of the control of addictive substances often represents the decline of the vitality of the whole society and the decline of control. ** If they do not do well in the military, economics and other fields, they tend to deregulate in other areas to distract the public.
Merkel and Scholz).
Germany is a typical case. When Merkel was in power, Germany's industrialization was booming, the economy was like cooking oil, and it never considered any legalization, and now Germany is sinking headlong into the quagmire of technological recession. The approval rating of the ruling Scholz has dropped again and again, and deregulation has naturally become a means of diverting public attentionBut how much can the declining German economy make up for the deficit by collecting "** taxes"? Judging from the situation of those drug-addicted predecessors, Scholz's wishful thinking may only fall into vain.