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South Korea has very strict laws against drug possession and even past evidence of drug use, but meanwhile, drinking alcohol is not just tolerated in their society, but fully expected to socially conform! A South Korean worker significantly decreases their chances for upward mobility if they do not get drunk with their boss and coworkers at regular outings, for example.
In fact, South Korea drinks more alcohol than even Russia does, and by a large margin (double the amount)! This makes it #1 in the world for alcohol consumption, even outstripping the stereotypically "drunken Slavs!" South Korea has an extremely high rate of liver cancer due to this, as well as domestic violence among other things...
Inasmuch as tolerance for alcohol yet disdain for drugs is typical for modern American culture, this must have something to do with the transplantation of American Protestantism and its Puritan contradictions into the country:
Indeed, the immediate post-war dictator of South Korea, Syngman Rhee, was a Methodist Christian, as if in honor of the new imperialist masters of the region. He is famous for massacring striking workers who threatened American-plutocratic hegemony, and passed the Korean Narcotics Act of 1957, the first law regulating drugs in the country.
One of Rhee's notable accomplishments:
But even under the drug controls that Rhee instituted, locally grown marijuana was still legal!
Compare this situation to that of the Vietnam War, where American soldiers could not consume cannabis due to marijuana use being easily detectable by drug testing, such that they widely took heroin instead
Anyway, it was the even more dictatorial and tyrannical Park Chung-hee who further accelerated the War on Drugs in South Korea, as well as social strictures generally. He is quoted as saying, "At this grave juncture that will settle the life and death in our one-on-one confrontation with the Communist Party, the smoking of marijuana by the youth is something that will bring ruin to the country."
The contemporaneous Richard Nixon is quoted as saying much the same thing, and this really clinches the whole thread:
This perfectly encapsulates the contradictions inherent to normalfag moral attitudes about drug/alcohol use. Some substances are more stigmatized than others, and the substances they tend to really stigmatize just so happen to be whatever they're not currently taking at the moment! I have seen many examples of individual normalfags who reject the idea that whatever they take is bad, since it benefits them so much, but still insist that other classes of drugs are bad and that those who use them are degenerates. See: members of Alcoholics/Narcotics Anonymous smoking cigarettes and chugging on super-sugary coffee while preaching about sobriety/abstinence.
Normalfags are complete sheep, which explains the legalization of cannabis in the US. Once enough normalfags started taking it, they all agreed that it wasn't bad anymore, but not before ruining the lives of so many people in preceding decades who were aberrant in their use of it
Indeed, you can even say that South Korea, as a highly collectivist society, needs to keep whatever intoxicating substances that aren't well-known and widely-used illegal, since if they were to be made legal, all it would take is one sheep to try something for the rest of the herd to then jump on board
BY THE WAY, the only reason northern countries (composed of "strong races" as NIxon says) drink so much alcohol is simply because their ancestors did not drink a lot of alcohol over the centuries like people nearer to the Mediterranean did, thus making them less able to metabolize and excrete alcohol, and instead get pleasurably intoxicated by it.
Nixon was literally on the level of a coping Stormfag making half-baked racial theories; and he was not some hypocritical swarthy retard on 4chan, but the American president who really entrenched and mobilized America's criminal War on Drugs, which has since been exported to America's entire global sphere of influence.
It is due to the shameful legacy of America's Protestant Puritan past, which led to alcohol prohibition in the first place, that the War on Drugs even exists. And it collapses underneath its own logic. There is no dichotomy between "alcohol" and "drugs" except in the specific context of modern American culture, and countries under the sway of modern American culture, such as South Korea.
AND ALSO, why was Communist Russia so lenient on alcohol? Since Tsarist times, alcohol was a state monopoly in Russia from which the state derived a huge degree of its income. Despite fleeting attempts to prohibit and discourage drug use, Moscow could not resist the money alcohol sales brought to its coffers. It remains the fact today that governments ultimately agree to legalize substances not out of any notion of individual autonomy/liberty which they profess to support, but by virtue of the income that can be generated from taxing it.
Indeed, Alcohol Prohibition ended in America simply because the government needed more tax income during the Great Depression.
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