united nations warns uruguay on legalizing marihuana (threats)

[Large Sarge]

http://www.truthonpot.com/2013/08/05/united-nations-warns-uruguay-keep-marijuana-illegal-or-suffer-serious-consequences/

[Cebu_4_2]

United Nations Warns Uruguay: Keep Marijuana Illegal Or Suffer ‘Serious Consequences’ By TruthOnPot.com (http://www.truthonpot.com/author/admin/) on August 5, 2013


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http://www.truthonpot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/un-warns-uruguay-08-05.jpgThe United Nations is urging Uruguay to comply with its 1961 international drug treaties that prohibit marijuana as the country gets closer to legalization.

TruthOnPot.com – On Thursday, people around the world were tuned in to watch Uruguay’s MPs debate a bill that would make the Latin American country the first in the world to legalize marijuana. But it wasn’t just pro-legalization supporters that responded quickly after 13 hours of back and forth ended in a 50-46 victory that saw the bill pass.
In the waking hours following the announcement that Uruguay had overcome its largest hurdle towards legalizing marijuana – final approval from the majority left-wing Senate is scheduled for October and is expected to come smoothly – two United Nations’ drug agencies released (http://incb.org/documents/Publications/PressRelease/PR2013/press_release010813.pdf) statements (http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/press/releases/2013/statement-attributable-to-the-unodc-spokesperson-on-the-uruguay-bill-on-regulation-of-the-cannabis-market.html) voicing disapproval for where the country is headed.
The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), a body of drug policy experts established by the United Nations to monitor compliance with international drug treaties, highlighted the fact that Uruguay was near to passing a law that “would be in complete contravention to the provisions of the international drug control treaties” and warned of “serious consequences for the health and welfare of the population” if marijuana were to become legal.
http://www.truthonpot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/un-warns-uruguay-6-08-05.jpgPro-legalization supporters camped outside of Uruguay’s parliament building in Montevideo during the House debate that lasted 13 hours

http://www.truthonpot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/un-warns-uruguay-2-08-05.jpgINCB’s president Raymond Yans issued an official warning only a few hours after Uruguay’s House voted in favor of legalizing marijuana

The statement was supported by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), which issued its own that reiterated the need for countries to comply with international drug policies. While admitting that drug control has had its challenges, the UNODC seems to believe current approaches are working.

“The international drug control conventions have helped to contain and stabilize drug consumption levels over decades, and they remain the foundation of global efforts to curb illicit drug trafficking and provide science-based prevention and treatment for problem drug users.”
What exactly are these science-based prevention strategies and how are they different from the obviously flawed strategy of prohibition? The INCB specifically referenced the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which prohibits the production and supply of various illegal drugs including cannabis.
Established over 50 years ago, the Single Convention was the first international treaty to prohibit marijuana – a position that has yet to waiver despite fast growing acceptance of the drug – even going so far as placing the same restrictions on cannabis as opium. Uruguay’s legalization bill – which will establish a government-controlled production and supply market for recreational cannabis – would indeed be abandoning the international agreements set out in 1961.
http://www.truthonpot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/un-warns-uruguay-4-08-05.jpgUN drug agencies are warning Uruguay to comply with the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which places marijuana under the same restrictions as opium

http://www.truthonpot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/un-warns-uruguay-3-08-05.jpgIn 2007, Mexican authorities made the largest drug cash seizure totaling over $200 million (US). Latin American leaders see legalization as the only option to combat powerful drug cartels

But contrary to the statements of the United Nations’ drug bodies, the truth is these outdated prohibition laws haven’t been working in the slightest. Uruguay’s politicians can attest to that, with illegal marijuana production doubling in recent years to an estimated 22 tonnes being grown and sold on the country’s black market annually. And many Latin American countries can relate to the problems that Uruguay has faced, which has led a group of influential leaders – including former presidents of Brazil, Mexico and Colombia – to also voice their support for legalization.
Along with Jose Mujica, Uruguay’s current president, these individuals see the global debate on marijuana policy as a pathway to honest discussion and reconsideration of a historical approach that boasts far more failures than successes.
http://www.truthonpot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/un-warns-uruguay-5-08-05.jpgUruguayan president Jose Mujica is a strong supporter of marijuana legalization, despite admitting to never trying the drug before.

For President Mujica, a widely respected leader who donates 90 percent of his $12,000 (US) monthly salary to charity and has publicly admitted to never trying marijuana before, the country’s groundbreaking bill is part of a bigger picture that crosses borders, reports ABC News.

“The marijuana debate is now open and it’s going to lead to changes.”
Mujica plans to defend his government’s plan to legalize marijuana in front of the United Nations General Assembly next month, where he is sure to receive strong criticism.
Unfortunately, it seems like the United Nations has yet to recognize legalization as a legitimate alternative that could repair the decades of damage done by treating users of certain drugs as criminals and allowing a substance used by an estimated 200 million people worldwide to be grown and sold by drug cartels instead of honest businesspeople.

[gunDriller]

fvck the United Nations & them taking marching orders from Big Pharma.

[madfranks]

Such arrogance! They ought to fund a program to scour the whole earth to pull up every single cannabis plant and seed, and remove it from creation, since they know better than the God who put it there in the first place.

[midnight rambler]

UN: Goddammit! We cannot allow you assholes to kill our cash cow!!! Back the fuck off!!!

[Libertytree]

I have to laugh at the pic of the US troops in that poppy field, they're guarding the damn thing not destroying it. I've been told this 1st hand by a couple different guys who were over there. It's all a fucking joke.

[sirgonzo420]

Such arrogance! They ought to fund a program to scour the whole earth to pull up every single cannabis plant and seed, and remove it from creation, since they know better than the God who put it there in the first place.


How about they do poison ivy first?

To my knowledge there is not a law against it.

You could grow fields of it next to an elementary school and sell it to schoolchildren.

[midnight rambler]

How about they do poison ivy first?

To my knowledge there is not a law against it.

You could grow fields of it next to an elementary school and sell it to schoolchildren.

Don't be giving any ideas to Big Pharma.

[Hypertiger]

All of south America and the world is coated with worse and better drugs that that.

it's a case of the so call LAW makers that have no such power to do so trying to by claiming their rules are LAW.

They have no power to make something not against LAW or something against LAW or even make LAW.

Just against the rules of the game and not against the rules of the game they are all playing and trying to win.

legal or illegal.

Is not the same as right or wrong.

Until game over shows up and they lose...You can not make rules against LAW.

LAW breaks them.

But of course the so called LAW makers must know this by claiming to be LAW makers with no such power to make or break LAW.

Nope and neither do all of you as far as I can tell.

This game you all are playing for fun and profit has you all convinced it's the best game in town.

Until the logical conclusion of any game is reached...which is game over.

When all the people that thought they were winning find out they were losers all along.

[madfranks]

All of south America and the world is coated with worse and better drugs that that.

Your first mistake is in using their terms, their words. Plants and natural organisms that have been growing around the globe since its creation ARE NOT DRUGS. Drugs are those synthetic things they make in a lab and sell to you.

[osoab]

Your first mistake is in using their terms, their words. Plants and natural organisms that have been growing around the globe since its creation ARE NOT DRUGS. Drugs are those synthetic things they make in a lab and sell to you.

And to add to your point, why do members of the board keep touting "marijuana" instead of cannabis?

[Cebu_4_2]

And to add to your point, why do members of the board keep touting "marijuana" instead of cannabis?

Make a separate thread on the proper etiquette so we can see it a few times to remind us of the correct terms.

[osoab]

Make a separate thread on the proper etiquette so we can see it a few times to remind us of the correct terms.

If we are a fairly enlightened bunch, why do most continue to use the derogative term that is pushed by tptb? It's a simple question. This has been brought on the board in the past in a couple of other threads.

Oh, and enjoy my weekend starts today. :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GKqhh7XvTc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GKqhh7XvTc

[Serpo]

And to add to your point, why do members of the board keep touting "marijuana" instead of cannabis?

depends where you live,in OZ the cops and media like to call it cannabis as it sounds worse than marijuana but it maybe the opposite in USA inc.

[Libertytree]

My mamaw called it a weed, stuff grew anywhere and everywhere, of course it was all hemp but the word weed works for me :)

[Cebu_4_2]

Words:

http://www.weedfarmer.com/growing_guide/words.php

[Barbaro]

So, is the UN going to threaten WA and CO state also?

What a joke the UN is and always has been.

[Cebu_4_2]

For jews and by jews to further their satanic masonic goals.

[Atocha]

Oh the horror. Legalizing a naturally growing weed.

[midnight rambler]

Oh the horror. Legalizing a naturally growing weed.

At the UN righting a wrong is WRONG!

[Atocha]

So true but sad.

[Grog]

legal or illegal.

Is not the same as right or wrong.



Quoted for truth! Best thing I've read all day!