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The_Red_Crayon
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U.N.: Worldwide Marijuana Use "Out of Control"
#5793738 - 06/26/06 08:10 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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WASHINGTON — Marijuana use worldwide is out of control because the plant grows everywhere, is in high demand and erroneously is considered by many to be harmless, a U.N. agency said Monday.
Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, highlighted the marijuana problem at a news conference in releasing his office's 2006 World Drug Report.
Marijuana, also known as cannabis, is a danger because it contains THC, a banned substance, Costa said.
While governments around the world generally have succeeded in containing use of heroin, cocaine and amphetamines, marijuana is a different story, Costa said.
"It's out of control in supply because it's a weed; it grows everywhere. It's out of control in demand because it's erroneously considered a light drug," he said. "But, and indeed, it is extremely problematic because of much-increased THC, tetrahydrocannabinol, content."
John Walters, head of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, agreed that marijuana is "a massive global problem."
"It's not just a gateway, it is a dead end as well as an opening for many other people who go on and use other things, and are polydrug users. It has been for a long time," said Walters, who joined Costa at the news conference.
The U.N. report released by Costa generally was upbeat, boasting gains including that opium poppy cultivation was down 22 percent in 2005. On the negative side, the report found that cocaine use is reaching alarming levels in Western Europe.
It attributed the decline in opium poppy cultivation to cutbacks in the three main source countries of illicit opium in the world: Afghanistan, Myanmar and Laos. Opium is the main ingredient for heroin.
"In Afghanistan, in 2005, opium poppy cultivation decreased for the first time since 2001," the report said. Still, it said, that country accounted for 89 percent of opium production worldwide.
The State Department's annual report on illicit drugs, issued in March, acknowledged that opium production is hampering democracy-building efforts in Afghanistan.
"Afghanistan's huge drug trade severely impacts efforts to rebuild the economy, develop a strong democratic government based on rule of law, and threatens regional stability," the report said.
Despite the sharp decrease in the total area under cultivation in all opium-producing countries, the U.N. report said production was down only 5 percent due to more favorable weather conditions during the 2005 growing season in Afghanistan.
Does anyone find it funny that the UN is more uneducated on this issue then the current and previous administrations of this country and the entire world that support the Eradication of a common plant that at one time grew around the world.
Does anyone find it ironic that the UN is trying to destroy and eradicate a indigenous plant that grows worldwide. To me this is the most mind boggling illogical heap of bullshit ive ever heard. The UN needs to be drowned in their own bullshit.
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Re: U.N.: Worldwide Marijuana Use "Out of Control" [Re: The_Red_Crayon]
#5793740 - 06/26/06 08:12 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Just when I thought the UN could get any more worthless, they publish some bullshit like this.
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The_Red_Crayon
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Re: U.N.: Worldwide Marijuana Use "Out of Control" [Re: Redstorm]
#5793812 - 06/26/06 08:31 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Redstorm said: Just when I thought the UN could get any more worthless, they publish some bullshit like this.
tell me about it, the UN just disgusts me anymore, they have to be the biggest bunch of inept and corrupt douchebags in the world.
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Re: U.N.: Worldwide Marijuana Use "Out of Control" [Re: The_Red_Crayon]
#5794193 - 06/26/06 10:14 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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The UN hardly invented this drug war propaganda. It sounds like their reading a page from the DEA. Almost exactly like it. The DEA was an invention of Nixon and the Republican party.
I've got a lot of respect for some of the things that come out of the UN. And I don't think they are "usless as tits on a bull" or whatever else some people say about them. What is with the hatred of the UN anyways?
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Re: U.N.: Worldwide Marijuana Use "Out of Control" [Re: carbonhoots]
#5794237 - 06/26/06 10:28 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I can name many off hand but if you want ill list a few reasons of why i dont like them to much.
The Srebrenitsa massacre in 1995. When 8,000 bosnian men were in a stretch of a few days carted off from their homes and shot and had their bodies dumped, a Dutch UN "peacekeeping" unit was in the town with over 2000 men and didnt do anything to stop the massacre.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica_massacre
The WHO organization spreading massive amounts of AIDS and Hepatitis contaminated vaccines in the late 70s has put Africa into the shithole that it now resides into this day.
Their lifting of DDT from the markets has caused Malaria deaths in thirld world countries to boom to a million deaths a year.
The UN's complete apathy of sending charity, Not ensuring that the food they donate is put into the right hands. Usually the charity is received by warlords or the government and used as leverage towards their opponents.
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Re: U.N.: Worldwide Marijuana Use "Out of Control" [Re: The_Red_Crayon]
#5794355 - 06/26/06 11:06 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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i wonder if they'll stop calling it a "controlled substance".
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Re: U.N.: Worldwide Marijuana Use "Out of Control" [Re: wilshire]
#5794611 - 06/27/06 12:42 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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What I fail to understand about that article is that I was fairly sure opium cultivation was way way up in Afghanistan. The Taliban had a LOT of horrible faults, but they cracked down on regional opium cultivation, whereas with the warlords now back in control of many regions of Afghanistan, opium is the major cash-crop for many of them. I can't help but wonder if that U.N. study looked only into areas around Kabul and Khandahar.
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Re: U.N.: Worldwide Marijuana Use "Out of Control" [Re: Panoramix]
#5794619 - 06/27/06 12:46 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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The question that needs to be answered is who is profiting off the opium trade.
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Re: U.N.: Worldwide Marijuana Use "Out of Control" [Re: The_Red_Crayon]
#5795103 - 06/27/06 08:23 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Fortunately the UN is simply a whine-and-bitch machine that doesn't really do anything other than whine and bitch.
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Re: U.N.: Worldwide Marijuana Use "Out of Control" [Re: carbonhoots]
#5795117 - 06/27/06 08:35 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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carbonhoots said: The UN hardly invented this drug war propaganda. It sounds like their reading a page from the DEA. Almost exactly like it. The DEA was an invention of Nixon and the Republican party.
I've got a lot of respect for some of the things that come out of the UN. And I don't think they are "usless as tits on a bull" or whatever else some people say about them. What is with the hatred of the UN anyways?
Originally it was the League of Nations, designed to get the world to know one another (perhaps the rise of modern diplomacy) so as to make sure another catastrophe like World War II did not occur again. Today I'm not sure if it's anything other than a powerless council that issues ignored edicts one after another. Somehow the UN thinks it can apply somekind of objective protocol that everyone must follow, such as here, demanding that the world "gets serious" with marijuana use.
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Re: U.N.: Worldwide Marijuana Use "Out of Control" [Re: Basilides]
#5795120 - 06/27/06 08:38 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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it only makes sense to blame drugs on terrorists as well.
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Re: U.N.: Worldwide Marijuana Use "Out of Control" [Re: kotik]
#5795605 - 06/27/06 11:34 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Same bullshit, different day..
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Re: U.N.: Worldwide Marijuana Use "Out of Control" [Re: faslimy]
#5796182 - 06/27/06 03:44 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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faslimy said: the UN will be openly in control of the world soon
Yeah, and the US will be the flagship.
But about this article...ohhhh nooooo not the evil marijuana, the world is going to fall apart cuz more people are smoking pot THE HORROR!
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Re: U.N.: Worldwide Marijuana Use "Out of Control" [Re: wilshire]
#5802474 - 06/29/06 08:57 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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wilshire said: i wonder if they'll stop calling it a "controlled substance".
Hahaha yeah I wonder if maybe, just maybe, they didn't try to control it, they wouldn't consider it to be "out of control."
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Re: U.N.: Worldwide Marijuana Use "Out of Control" [Re: The_Red_Crayon]
#5802488 - 06/29/06 09:06 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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The UN is a complete clusterfuck. They put CHINA on the fucking human rights commission, and spend their time bitching about the US's guns and drugs. How about the UN just fuck the fuck off? I think we should declare war with the UN, send in the Marines to take over the building in NYC and execute every motherfucker in there.
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Re: U.N.: Worldwide Marijuana Use "Out of Control" [Re: The_Red_Crayon]
#5802497 - 06/29/06 09:08 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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http://www.stopungunban.org/
The UN wants your guns. Why do they want them? So that we have no effective means of resistance to shit like this? When the blue-helmets start coming to your house to help with no-knock warrants because you are part of the "pandemic" of marijuana abuse, you can thank the disarmament pushers.
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Re: U.N.: Worldwide Marijuana Use "Out of Control" [Re: xDuckYouSuckerx]
#5803368 - 06/29/06 01:56 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Maybe the UN bitches about alot of stuff but we only hear about what has our country's name in it?
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Re: U.N.: Worldwide Marijuana Use "Out of Control" [Re: RosettaStoned]
#5803385 - 06/29/06 02:02 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Yea right.
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Re: U.N.: Worldwide Marijuana Use "Out of Control" [Re: xDuckYouSuckerx]
#5803451 - 06/29/06 02:22 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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You honestly believe the only thing the UN does is sit around and bitch about the US?
Now I don't have a high opinion of them by any means, but I find it very this quote very hard to believe.
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spend their time bitching about the US's guns and drugs
Love them or hate them, it is laughable to think an organization comprised of most of the countries on earth, spends the entirety of it's time bitching about one country. And they probably do spend alot of their time talking about the US, but we dominate their policy so they don't have much of a choice. China and Russia may have a fair say in things, but the US sets the tone of any piece of debate they have.
So don't act like this is something new by someone bitching about our drugs and guns, because if our own govt wouldn't have bitched about them first, the UN wouldn't say shit about it. But I suppose it's more patriotic to ignore your own govts shit and focus on outsiders who say the same things instead.
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