UN official calls for marijuana ballot rollback
Source: The Boston Globe
VIENNA (AP) The head of the U.N. drug watchdog agency is urging U.S. federal officials to challenge ballot measures in Colorado and Washington that decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana for adults 21 and over.
Raymond Yans says the approvals send a wrong message to the rest of the nation and it sends a wrong message abroad.
Yans heads the International Narcotics Control Board. He told The Associated Press on Tuesday he hopes Attorney General Eric Holder will take all the necessary measures to ensure that marijuana possession and use remains illegal throughout the U.S.
Both states are holding off on plans to regulate and tax the drug while waiting to see whether the Justice Department will assert federal authority over drug law....
Read more: http://www.boston.com/news/world/united-nations/2012/11/20/official-calls-for-marijuana-ballot-rollback/QEqcQ9iGNYt6U7AWyy8BLM/story.html
bluedigger
(17,086 posts)Warpy
(111,267 posts)that a war on a simple plant has caused.
The only people this bogus war is good for is the scumbags who head up the drug gangs.
They haven't stopped a single person who wants it. They haven't "saved" a single child from it. They've just thrown some of those children into prison for the bulk of their useful lives.
Mr. Yans, you are wrong. End it now.
The nasty weed people who want more smokers to buy their cancer sticks do not want people to home grow their won smoke which does not cause cancer and is nicer to smoke.
Warpy
(111,267 posts)However, without all the chemical "enhancers," it might be less tasty to smokers and they might smoke a bit less.
Then again, nicotine is so very addictive that this is not going to be the case.
Backyard pot has a better case to be made than backyard tobacco, although it's a theft target. I think people will still use grow lights in a spare bathroom rather than grow it in the back yard for this reason.
Tobacco companies don't care, they've had copyrights on trade names for joints for decades.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Who benefits from pot prohibition?
Law enforcement
Prosecutors and the defense bar
The incarceration complex
The forced drug treatment industry
villager
(26,001 posts)n/t
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)Pay off people like this.
As well as to contribute to politicians running for office on both sides of the aisle.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)profits in the anti depressant and anti anxiety drugs market decline ... among other medicinal uses for marijuana.
tridim
(45,358 posts)Same with tumorless consumers.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)The Dutch ignore the INCB with their cannabis cafes.
The Europeans, Canadians, and Australians ignore the INCB with their safe injection sites.
The Bolivians ignore the INCB with their coca production.
We, too, can ignore the INCB and legalize weed.
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Panasonic
(2,921 posts)First, deal with the problem you have over in Europe before you tell our states what to do.
Last i checked, Portugual, Netherlands and a few other states have legalized or decriminalized harder stuff than pot.
Stainless
(718 posts)Or else he is afraid of losing his job. What a dick head!
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)jerseyjack
(1,361 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)The UN doesn't have to go out of their way if they want to find weed.
Hey, buddy, when you get back to Geneva, take the #19 tram from UN HQ at Palais to the stop at Cornavin. Walk about two blocks from there to the lake on Rue des Alpes. Wait around for about 5 minutes and if you don't walk away with 5g for 50 euro, then you couldn't find a Slurpee in a 7-11.
You'll be back at your desk in 15 minutes.
StrictlyRockers
(3,855 posts)Good on ya!
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)In Interlaken, you can buy seeds over the counter.
For the UN to go off on this is ridiculous.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)legally and personal possession of small amounts is perfectly legal. Yans claims the United States has no right to do what his own nation did years ago.
DiverDave
(4,886 posts)When I was stationed outside Nuremberg,( a small town called Schwabach) I could go into town, right across from the hauptbahnhof and score 90 grams for 50 bucks.
Had a scary encounter with the local polizei, I was across the street from the train station, having just arrived to score, and they drove their car right up on the sidewalk and jumped out.
The one kept asking me "you have the hash,yeah?" and I kept saying no as they turned out my pockets and even took my zippo apart to look in the bottom.
I kept saying over and over "just please dont hit me with that stick (they were pretty liberal with it if they perceived you were resisting)
Since I hadnt bought anything yet, they had to let me go, I copped and hung out in a bar for awhile before I went back to the train station.
I was shaking for a good while after that encounter, I'll tell you.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)That's what any number of people will spontaneously offer in that area of town if you stand in one place too long. Whatever in particular the goods are, I don't know.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)He's the inside-out version of Aqualung.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)Jeesus. I thought the US was supposed to be, you know, like operating
in the 21st Century, not a retrograde Reefer Madness revisited.
Trillo
(9,154 posts)A light bulb moment.
marble falls
(57,097 posts)neoconn
(185 posts)Stay the hell out of America's business specially in relations to our "drug war". Who lining this dickweed's pocket?
(Like the pun?)
christx30
(6,241 posts)what the people of these states want. It's the desires of the powerful elite that matter. Who do those people think they are? Deciding what laws they want to live under? They should bow down and live like sheep, and let people like Yans run their lives.
LW1977
(1,235 posts)...but in regard to Raymond Yans, Go fck yourself! (with a cactus colonoscopy style)
Matariki
(18,775 posts)lol.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)it sends a wrong message to the rest of the nation and it sends a wrong message abroad.
Yeah.. it sends the message that people want to be free from the machine, free for the drug cartels, free to exercise our human right to seek happiness. What "wrong" message?? There is absolutely no evidence that legalizing drugs has any adverse effect on society. On the contrary, there is great evidence that it alleviates most of the the horrible effects of said prohibition.
This guy is a deluded prude or nuts...
SariesNightly
(285 posts)Don't bend don't break baby don't back down
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)mountain grammy
(26,622 posts)'Narcotics' Control Board" would know what a narcotic is and what a narcotic isn't. Mr. Yans, STFU.
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)They are just taking up valuable real estate.
loudsue
(14,087 posts)messed up.
gtar100
(4,192 posts)Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)then they come for your property rights, its Agenda 21! its the NWO! Why does Mr. Yans hate democracy so much?
Scuba
(53,475 posts)"Make drugs illegal", says the guy who makes his living off drugs being illegal.
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)Not familiar with that part of the overall story.
Curious minds would like to know.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)which has some of the world's most liberal marijuana laws. Yans says his nation is free to do so, but ours must not? Yes, that is what he says.
Since 2003, the Belgian government has made the possession and use of marijuana legal under the following conditions:
The amount possessed is 5 grams or less
You are over 18
You do not smoke in the presence of minors
You do not smoke in public
You can buy marijuana seeds and grow them in Belgium without penalty however, you are only allowed to own one female plant.
CanSocDem
(3,286 posts)...that he is someones 'mouthpiece'. Not even us dumb NORTH Americans are blind to that level of hypocrisy.
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sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)modem77
(191 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)And this is from someone who never has
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)Dems50State
(147 posts)As much as I want to attack this guy for being a idiot I do not want to agree with the right-wing about the UN. God the headache this gives me trying to figure out why he would attack pot like that. Thank God Colorado is one of the states setting the ways. I'm proud of my state for this. The voters got it right. Pot is harmless.
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)In the abstract it's about self-determination, something that the right and the left basically believe in though the examples they choose to advocate for usually differ.
Embrace the moment.