Home | Community | Message Board

MagicBag Grow Bags
This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.


Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Kraken Kratom Shop: Kratom Capsules for Sale

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
InvisibleSimplepowa
In Pursuit of Knowledge


Registered: 03/06/09
Posts: 4,310
Former World Leaders Call For An End To The War On Drugs * 1
    #19114901 - 11/10/13 01:22 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

In an op-ed on Tuesday, Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations and Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former president of Brazil, condemned the global war on drugs and advocated for a new approach based around legalization and regulation.

Annan and Cardoso argue that there is “clear evidence of failure” of harsh drug policies, which penalize non-violent users while funding organized crime and trafficking rings that terrorize communities around the world. The two are part of the Global Commission on Drug Policy, which released a report in 2011 espousing a public health approach and legal drug regulation that could undercut the power of international organized crime.

Historically, the U.S. has led the charge to enact tough drug policies around the world, even as American drug users contribute $40 billion a year to Latin American drug cartels. Nations like Mexico, Guatemala, and Colombia, ravaged by the violence and power of the drug trade, are driving a reform movement in the UN, but have thus far been stymied without U.S. support.

However, as attitudes change in the U.S. and more and more states approve marijuana for either recreational or medical use, global drug policy has been thrown into question. In March, the U.N.’s International Narcotics Control Board pressured the Obama administration to crack down on state legalization of marijuana, arguing that these initiatives threaten international drug control treaties. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime also remains opposed to policy changes.

Meanwhile, several countries in Europe and Latin America have moved toward legalization within their borders. Uruguay recently announced the government would sell marijuana for $1 a gram in an effort to wrest market power away from drug cartels. Uruguay and other nations pondering legalization are also watching Colorado and Washington, which legalized marijuana last year and plans to regulate and tax the drug, as models for implementation.

Annan and Cardoso marked the special session of the UN General Assembly in 2016 as the next big opportunity to discuss drug policy reform. Given Americans’ rapidly changing views on drugs, U.S. leadership may finally be ready to lend its clout to enact meaningful reform.

November 05, 2013
Aviva Shen | Thinkprogess
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/11/05/2892831/kofi-annan-war-drugs/


--------------------
Carl Sagan - "Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

---

Robert Pirsig - "When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion."

---

Brian Cox - "[One] problem with today’s world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinion AND have others listen to it. The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense."


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1

Kraken Kratom Shop: Kratom Capsules for Sale


Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* Are psychedelic drugs good for you? motamanM 7,375 6 12/03/03 04:44 AM
by sirreal
* BUSH TO SIGN CRIME BILL WIDENING DRUG LAW motamanM 3,791 4 05/02/03 01:02 PM
by chodamunky
* U.S. considers tighter borders if Canada eases drug penaltie motamanM 2,531 1 05/04/03 04:48 PM
by Anonymous
* Study: Marijuana leads to hard drugs TinMan 3,928 11 11/03/03 08:52 AM
by Seraph
* U.S. Plans Breathalyzer-Like Drug Test for Drivers LearyfanS 4,348 3 10/28/17 10:13 AM
by Learyfan
* UN Sounds Alarm Over Brain-Killing Drugs Twirling 3,014 6 09/25/03 06:29 PM
by DailyPot
* Club-drug dealers face doubled fines motamanM 3,230 3 04/10/03 02:44 AM
by Sheepish
* Man Goes to Court to Get His Drugs Back motamanM 1,801 3 07/10/03 12:15 PM
by Fungushungry

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: motaman, veggie, Alan Rockefeller, Mostly_Harmless
222 topic views. 0 members, 6 guests and 2 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2024 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.015 seconds spending 0.006 seconds on 13 queries.