[eponeponepon]

It's not just Western society, it's humans in general. The rest of the world might not get so wound up about narcotics as the West does, but there are plenty of other things that the mob makes unhelpful binary judgments about.

[pennaMan]

Don't a lot of Asian countries give out death penalties all the time for drug offences that would land you 5 years in jail in the West?

[yk]

As evidenced by sweeping generalizations about "the West" and "the Rest."