If you've been here long enough, it seems to get better. Alternate take on that, I guess, would be that you've been here too long, but either way it tends to make dinners with Chinese friends more fun.
Overall it's been going up for years. Given the local economy & the global economy and local needs and differential access to resources everywhere, how much should it be? This is not a smartass implied criticism - I don't know the answer - but a real question for discussion.
Note that the article seems to indicate that anti-illegal-drug efforts are most concerned with transportation, production & use of amphetamines and heroin. I've heard little about anti-marijuana efforts, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.
@Geogramatt: Another possibility might be to ask the people concerned, who have this poverty problem now, about what they think might be usefully done, rather than make them wait 25 years, but that would involve a level of transparency and consultation that I rather doubt would be permitted, since the officials concerned are no doubt quite sure that they know better. It would also probably require an admission that the villages, properly speaking, belong to the inhabitants.
As for the generation passing peacefully: might be difficult after all the young people leave.
I'm not a health foody but the few meals I've had here have been really good and, yeah, I'll be happy to go back alone to sample all the rest of them. It's also not a bad place from which to people-watch the street below.
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发布者Enough of that, lemonlover.
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发布者Note that the article seems to indicate that anti-illegal-drug efforts are most concerned with transportation, production & use of amphetamines and heroin. I've heard little about anti-marijuana efforts, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.
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发布者@Geogramatt: Another possibility might be to ask the people concerned, who have this poverty problem now, about what they think might be usefully done, rather than make them wait 25 years, but that would involve a level of transparency and consultation that I rather doubt would be permitted, since the officials concerned are no doubt quite sure that they know better. It would also probably require an admission that the villages, properly speaking, belong to the inhabitants.
As for the generation passing peacefully: might be difficult after all the young people leave.