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 Congrats Argentinians!
#8321625 - 04/23/08 11:59 PM (4 months, 10 days ago) |
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Anyone currently residing in Argentina has reason to celebrate.
MARIJUANA HAS BEEN DECRIMINALIZED IN ARGENTINA!
http://blog.norml.org/2008/04/23/argentina-decriminalizes-cannabis-and-drug-consumption/
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This just in… A federal court in Argentina has decriminalized
the personal consumption of drugs in that country. According
to the court’s ruling, punishing drug users only “creates an
avalanche of cases targeting consumers without climbing up in
the ladder of [drug] trafficking.”
Last month at a UN meeting in Vienna, Argentina’s Minister of
Justice, Aníbal Fernández, said that the policy of punishing
drug consumers was a “total failure.”
Impressive!
- Original Source: Despenalizan el consumo de drogas en Argentina
Translation (via Google Translate):
A court in Buenos Aires cancels thousands of cases of defendants in proceedings for possessing marijuana
They believe that consumers are the factor of a chain that ends in drug trafficker
The Financial online
Buenos Aires, April 23 .- A federal court in Buenos Aires decriminalize individual consumption of drugs in the capital argentina, which would be cancelled in the process thousands of cases of persons accused of possessing small amounts of marijuana, according to the judgement published Today the press in Buenos Aires.
The ruling states that the Board of 1 Federal Chamber of appeals declared unconstitutional sections of the law that punishes drug users, enacted in 1989.
The rule punishes consumers questioned on the grounds that are the backbone of a chain that ends in drug trafficker.
But the court ruled that such a presumption only generated "an avalanche of records for consumers without achieving move up the chain of trafficking" in drugs.
The ruling was applied to the case of two youths arrested by police for possession of marijuana cigarettes and pills of ecstasy when attending a celebration of electronic music in Buenos Aires in May 2007.
Although the issue should be settled in the Supreme Court, the court's ruling in Buenos Aires is in line with government policy Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner in favour of reforming the laws to decriminalize drug use.
During the 51 Special Session of the Economic and Social Council of the UN, held last month in Vienna, the Argentine Minister of Justice and Security, Anibal Fernandez, raised the "complete failure" of the policy of punishing drug users.
In this way, and for the first time in 30 years, Argentina abandoned its commitment to the U.S. position of pursuing both the drug trafficker and the consumer. (With information from Reuters / MVC)
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Helixx
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Re: Congrats Argentinians! [Re: citricacidx]
#8321645 - 04/24/08 12:04 AM (4 months, 10 days ago) |
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I could see this becoming more popular, when neighboring countries see the positive effects. 
edit: I just hope a couple european countries learn from this soon. Get some progress started.
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citricacidx
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Re: Congrats Argentinians! [Re: Helixx]
#8321687 - 04/24/08 12:17 AM (4 months, 10 days ago) |
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I just wish the US would be like, well... we've been wasting billions of tax payer dollars that could've been spent on things like public education, national health care, or just not being douche bags and sending financial support to other countries rather than occupying them with troops.
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The Tourist
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 Re: Congrats Argentinians! [Re: Helixx]
#8321750 - 04/24/08 12:39 AM (4 months, 10 days ago) |
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Add this to the list of populist, socialist democratic movements that the U.S. is on a mission to squash in Latin America...
"Oh no, drug reform might spread in Latin America! Just like democracy, socialism, anything else defined as "leftist", and anything that restricts complete neo-liberal infestation of the continent by our capitalist elite!"
Time to offer some guns and CIA training and support to more Latin American anti-left terrorist groups. Yayyyy! 
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The Tourist
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Re: Congrats Argentinians! [Re: The Tourist]
#8321756 - 04/24/08 12:41 AM (4 months, 10 days ago) |
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Seriously though, this is good stuff. I'll love to see how it turns out.
Do you guys know of any good websites/ news organizations that will cover it?
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Re: Congrats Argentinians! [Re: The Tourist]
#8327584 - 04/25/08 04:24 PM (4 months, 9 days ago) |
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The Tourist said:
Add this to the list of populist, socialist democratic movements that the U.S. is on a mission to squash in Latin America...
"Oh no, drug reform might spread in Latin America! Just like democracy, socialism, anything else defined as "leftist", and anything that restricts complete neo-liberal infestation of the continent by our capitalist elite!"
Time to offer some guns and CIA training and support to more Latin American anti-left terrorist groups. Yayyyy!
I'm rather glad you've decided that it is a good thing happening in Argentina, and that you chose to bring discussion to the shroomery. But something you need to realize is that the biggest load of populist, collectivist crap is this whole left-right paradigm. To accept it as truth, as motivations for individuals (especially the left) is EXACTLY what the corporate elite want. The elite are not capitalists.
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The Tourist
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Re: Congrats Argentinians! [Re: Minstrel]
#8329153 - 04/26/08 12:20 AM (4 months, 8 days ago) |
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Who are they?
I guess I've always seen the elite as wanting to limit the spread of socialism and nationalism because it means less power and $$ for them, not simply because they are right-wingers opposing left-wingers (if the terms are even valid today).
I think I'm just missing you here though...
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