the united nations view towards marijuana

[WantDaChronic]

here is what the UN has to say about marijuana:

 

in short that reads if you want cannabis to be legally grown in your country, you have to treat it like opium unless you are growing hemp in which case you can grow as much as you want. but point number 3 blows all that out of the water because it says you have to adopt measures that will decrease the mis-use and illegal traffic in the leaves of the cannabis plant. now why leaf is so special i'll never know, but as point 1 says you have to treat cannabis exactly the same as opium so here is what the UN has to say about growing opium:

 

 

so if a nation were to make it possible to legally grow your own, it would be required that atleast 1 government agency be set up that will make sure all the growers adhere to the law. now the only problem i have noticed so far is point 2d which says we'd have to give up all of our crop to that government agency. what is the point to growing it if you cant even smoke a single bud?

 

i think we need to setup a governmental agency that deals with drugs, probably something like the DEA in america, but give it the rights to set drug policies based on scientific based evidence. that could back fire big time, but should someone with a head on their shoulders run the place they could almost completely legalize cannabis and do it legally within the international community they'd just need to keep referring to all the studies that recommend treating drugs as a medicinal problem instead of a criminal one as well as pointing out examples like the netherlands which have made drugs appear boring by putting them out in the open. Im not sure how to get around giving the entire crop to that government agency, but then again it says they only have to take physical possession of the crop, it never says they cant give it back to the growers

 

i'd love to get a heap of information about how to legalize our favourite herb as well as the benefits of doing so, so i can write a detailed report and send it to every politician in australia. with any luck a greedy politician will come accross it and try to make out the billions in savings were their idea, but im cool with that so long as things go our way so what are your thoughts, suggestions and idea's on how to legalise cannabis?

 

oh and before i forget, i got those articles from some united nations drug report which came from here

[iamnotacop]

Nothing at the UN will change until that prick, Antonio Maria Costa, is thrown out on his arse. This is the man that said that Cannabis is as bad as heroin and cocaine. Never mind the fact that he was just a bean counter, and has only been in the Office of Drugs and Crime since 2002. Before that he was basically an overpaid accountant. eg.

 

An Italian native, Costa was born June 16, 1941. He holds a:

 

* Degree in political science from the University of Turin (1963);

* Degree in mathematical economics from the Moscow State University (1967); and

* Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley (1971).

 

His career history is as follows:

* 1969 to 1983: Senior economist in the United Nations Department of International Economics and Social Affairs.

* 1983 to 1987: Under-Secretary-General at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

* 1987 to 1992: Director-General for Economics and Finance at the European Commission.

* 1992 to 2002: Secretary-General of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).

* 2002 to present: Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Director-General of the United Nations Office in Vienna (UNOV).

 

My thoughts are, if he hadn't finished his education untill 1971, how was he a senior econimist in 1969? Guess it is not what you know ........

 

Here is another spew from him in regards to Cannabis

 

http://www.unodc.org/newsletter/en/perspec...01/page009.html

 

You have described cannabis as the weakest link in the global drug control chain. Why?

 

The popular perception of cannabis is that it is a "soft" or "recreational" drug. The problem is that this lax approach creates a permissive environment for drug abuse. And cannabis can then become a gateway to other harder drugs.* Worse than that, the psychoactive substances in cannabis (called THC) are becoming more potent. When I was at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, the cannabis that some students were smoking had 2 or 3 per cent THC content. Today, THC levels of some of the higher-grade cannabis can be ten times** as much. That makes cannabis not only more powerful, it makes it more dangerous, not least in its effect on health. So Governments need to have coherent policies on cannabis and to encourage more effective prevention and treatment.

"I recently visited a park full of drug addicts in New Delhi which

was the closest thing I have seen to Dante's vision of hell."

 

What do you think of the argument that drugs should simply be legalized?

 

I disagree. Drugs are illegal because they are dangerous, they are not dangerous because they are illegal***. People take drugs because they want to be stimulated or sedated.**** Either way, their brain changes. Would you want a pilot or train driver or the guy in the car coming towards you to be on drugs? Do we want to make drugs cheaper and increase the number of addicts?***** Legalization would worsen public health, not improve it.****** We cannot trade a greater threat to public health against a possible, theoretical decline in crime.******* Governments need to be able to protect health and provide security.

 

That being said, prison is not necessarily the best solution for drug addicts.********

 

* - propaganda based on lies or misunderstanding.

** - lies, I have never had 30% THC in any Cannabis, nor have I heared of any at CannabisCup

*** - Ignorance is bliss

**** - There are plenty more reasons why people use drugs.

***** - more propaganda aimed at scaring politicians against common sense.

****** - How can it? People already use drugs, and only a small fraction need help.

******* - With criminals controlling the market, how can crime increase if legalization/decriminalization occured?

******** The only thing I have ever read that this prick said that was true.

 

 

All in all, I don't like him at all, he is a fuckwit. The problem is, his misinformed opinion counts to the politicians, who are too ignorant to use their heads themselves.

Edited December 5, 2007 by iamnotacop