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 U.S. states' pot legalization not in line with international law: U.N. agency 
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U.S. states' pot legalization not in line with international law: U.N. agency
(Reuters) - Moves by some U.S. states to legalize marijuana are not in line with international drugs conventions, the U.N. anti-narcotics chief said on Wednesday, adding he would discuss the issue in Washington next week.
Residents of Oregon, Alaska, and the U.S. capital voted this month to allow the use of marijuana, boosting the legalization movement as cannabis usage is increasingly recognized by the American mainstream.
"I don't see how (the new laws) can be compatible with existing conventions," Yury Fedotov, executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), told reporters.
Asked whether there was anything the UNODC could do about it, Fedotov said he would raise the problem next week with the U.S. State Department and other U.N. agencies.
The Oregon and Alaska steps would legalize recreational cannabis use and usher in a network of shops similar to those operating in Washington state and Colorado, which in 2012 voted to become the first U.S. states to allow marijuana use for fun.
Marijuana remains classified as an illegal narcotic under federal law, although the Obama administration has said it was giving individual states leeway to carry out their own recreational-use statutes.
Fedotov suggested the U.S. developments may be part of a wider trend that he said the UNODC was following.
On the international level, Uruguay's parliament in late 2013 approved a bill to legalize and regulate the production and sale of marijuana -- the first country to do so.
The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) has said Uruguay's new bill contravened the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which it says requires states to limit the use of cannabis to medical and scientific purposes, due to its dependence-producing potential. The Vienna-based INCB monitors compliance with this and two other drug control treaties.
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Re: U.S. states' pot legalization not in line with international law: U.N. agency [Re: luvdemshrooms]  6
#20826355 - 11/12/14 10:31 AM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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Fuck the UN. We have enough problems with our own government. We don't need some illegitimate international body perching on us trying to run our lives. The UN is a pure hell force to begin with, just a laundry list of absuses.
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Re: U.S. states' pot legalization not in line with international law: U.N. agency [Re: thenutflush] 3
#20826392 - 11/12/14 10:40 AM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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The UN comes to us on their knees for many things. If our government tells them to back off, they will. We're going to wind up seeing an overhaul done to the UN anti-narcotics treaties at some point.
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Re: U.S. states' pot legalization not in line with international law: U.N. agency [Re: Dark_Star]
#20826399 - 11/12/14 10:41 AM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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Hopefully once the U.S. starts catching on, Europe will follow. Bring it on U.N.
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Re: U.S. states' pot legalization not in line with international law: U.N. agency [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#20826433 - 11/12/14 10:50 AM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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downlowfunk
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Re: U.S. states' pot legalization not in line with international law: U.N. agency [Re: s240779] 1
#20826517 - 11/12/14 11:11 AM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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They pass out sterilizaton vaccines in AFrica. They can fuck off.
Weed and DMT for everyone who wants it. Fuck the control system.
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Re: U.S. states' pot legalization not in line with international law: U.N. agency [Re: Dark_Star]
#20826826 - 11/12/14 12:44 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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We are going to do an overhaul, see the Global Commission on Drug Policy's site, the opportunity is coming in 2016.
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morrowasted
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Re: U.S. states' pot legalization not in line with international law: U.N. agency [Re: Hygrocybe]
#20826953 - 11/12/14 01:25 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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Doesn't matter, the USA has veto power in any decision the UN makes.
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Re: U.S. states' pot legalization not in line with international law: U.N. agency [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#20827219 - 11/12/14 02:38 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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What i do not understand is that alcohol is legal. Not just that but the fact that everyone hates on cannabis so much for its so called ill effects and addiction and such. So why is alcohol legal? Because it is way worse for you than cannabis. It CAN kill you along with brain cells. Yet nobody seems to use logic i guess.
"Your a stupid stoner for smoking cannabis!" -(Goes home and drinks a 12 pack)
Make any sense? Not to me :/
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Re: U.S. states' pot legalization not in line with international law: U.N. agency [Re: 1kldude]
#20827228 - 11/12/14 02:41 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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I think the UN has some starving children and exploited women they can go and worry about, before they prioritize putting irrational and undemocratic drug policy up on a marble altar to be worshiped. The war on drugs is immoral.
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Re: U.S. states' pot legalization not in line with international law: U.N. agency [Re: PsyDragon]
#20827314 - 11/12/14 03:04 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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The U.N. is a joke.
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FractalMind
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Re: U.S. states' pot legalization not in line with international law: U.N. agency [Re: Konyap]
#20827614 - 11/12/14 03:57 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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Why is there such a political uproar any time drug policy gets changed for the better?! Are politicians really still this naive? There is so much to be gained in overhauling narcotics laws!
Edited by FractalMind (11/12/14 03:58 PM)
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Re: U.S. states' pot legalization not in line with international law: U.N. agency [Re: 1kldude]
#20827820 - 11/12/14 04:41 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
downlowfunk said:
They pass out sterilizaton vaccines in AFrica.
I would love a citation for the claim you make.
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1kldude said:
So why is alcohol legal? Because it is way worse for you than cannabis. It CAN kill you along with brain cells. Yet nobody seems to use logic i guess.
Ethanol doesn't kill brain cells, that is a myth.
It damages the dendrites of neurons so the communication between them is just less efficient if you abuse this drug. That's pretty much it.
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Re: U.S. states' pot legalization not in line with international law: U.N. agency [Re: FractalMind]
#20831824 - 11/13/14 12:19 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
FractalMind said:
Why is there such a political uproar any time drug policy gets changed for the better?! Are politicians really still this naive? There is so much to be gained in overhauling narcotics laws!
Some people just want everybody to be miserable
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Re: U.S. states' pot legalization not in line with international law: U.N. agency [Re: Konyap]
#20832990 - 11/13/14 05:01 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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The un does not support the death penalty by they do support marijuana being illegal? Hypocrites.
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luvdemshrooms
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Re: U.S. states' pot legalization not in line with international law: U.N. agency [Re: ShiVersblood]
#20833107 - 11/13/14 05:27 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yes. Because killing someone is EXACTLY the same as busting them for weed. 
Perhaps looking up the definition of hypocrite will help.
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You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers
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Re: U.S. states' pot legalization not in line with international law: U.N. agency [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#20847973 - 11/16/14 09:04 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: U.S. states' pot legalization not in line with international law: U.N. agency [Re: tokeweed420]
#20848421 - 11/16/14 11:06 PM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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I will not allow the un to try and take my freedom away from me, we don't take kindly to no outside forces down here. We already are going to be at odds with the federals pretty soon. Our motto is, dea go away
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Re: U.S. states' pot legalization not in line with international law: U.N. agency [Re: ShiVersblood]
#20848901 - 11/17/14 02:52 AM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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Got enough "outside forces" already. The DEA is a US agency..
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Edited by Fractal420 (11/17/14 02:53 AM)
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