Turn a blind eye, and every one of the other 30 Articles in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights will be breached too.
My own experience when I was a minister showed two institutions which really didn’t care very much what we thought: the Chinese government, and Google.
Confessions of use in their youth by politicians raises the case for controlled legalisation – at least of ‘soft’ substances, if not yet of hard ones.
A unified approach against this authoritarian power is the only way to combat Chinese influence and expansion.