Thing is--I have by now absorbed the fact that drug-prohibition has a dark and evil history in the United States--but why did the rest of the world, seemingly, follow suit?

So it (the prohibition of hemp) was, primarily,  the evil perpetrated by  greedy, corrupt, 'Citizen Kane' William Randolf Hearst, who had forests to burn...and the infinitely mendacious Anslinger...and the unspeakable Nixon...and Nancy ('Mommy') Reagan...and other unbelievable perhaps but perfectly Real Americans...Mais pourquoi les autres?