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UN official calls for marijuana ballot rollback (Colorado and Washington)
Boston.com ^ | 11/20/12

Posted on 11/20/2012 6:21:02 PM PST by Libloather

UN official calls for marijuana ballot rollback
AP / November 20, 2012

VIENNA (AP) — The head of the U.N. drug watchdog agency is urging U.S. federal officials to challenge ballot measures in Colorado and Washington that decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana for adults 21 and over.

Raymond Yans says the approvals send ‘‘a wrong message to the rest of the nation and it sends a wrong message abroad.’’

Yans heads the International Narcotics Control Board.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: colorado; marijuana; un; washington
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1 posted on 11/20/2012 6:21:06 PM PST by Libloather
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ROFL!!


2 posted on 11/20/2012 6:22:11 PM PST by CharlotteVRWC
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To: Libloather
US out of the UN
UN out of the US

And not because of the maryjane but rather their interference

3 posted on 11/20/2012 6:22:36 PM PST by NonValueAdded ("Our president ... makes big speeches packed full of little ideas" Charles C. W. Cooke)
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To: Libloather

I would refer this idiot to the 11th Amendment to the US Constitution. Enough said.


4 posted on 11/20/2012 6:22:47 PM PST by txnativegop (Fed up with zealots)
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To: Libloather

I would hope that even those Americans opposed to the new marijuana laws would support the voters against these globalist tyrants.


5 posted on 11/20/2012 6:24:51 PM PST by steve86 (Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
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To: Libloather

I’m not for decriminalizing pot, but the U.N. can go pound sand. They have no business sticking their damned noses in our affairs.


6 posted on 11/20/2012 6:24:59 PM PST by DJ Frisat ((optional, printed after my name on post))
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To: Libloather

Perhaps this will discredit the UN among its liberal supporters in the US


7 posted on 11/20/2012 6:25:27 PM PST by ZULU (See video: http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-first-siege-of-vienna.html)
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To: Libloather

Let’s have a ballot measure, Ban pot or ban the UN. Smoke em if ya got em.


8 posted on 11/20/2012 6:25:43 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Superciliousness is the essence of Obama)
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To: steve86

Absolutely!


9 posted on 11/20/2012 6:26:20 PM PST by rabidralph
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To: Libloather

You MUST not lower our drug profits!!!


10 posted on 11/20/2012 6:27:32 PM PST by MestaMachine (TREASON!!!!)
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To: Libloather

Not what I would have expected from the UN.

But then again, this just confirms it - the UN is wrong 100% of the time.


11 posted on 11/20/2012 6:28:22 PM PST by PGR88
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Raymond Yans says the approvals send ‘‘a wrong message to the rest of the nation and it sends a wrong message abroad.’’

Very strange.

Use of cannabis has been legal in the Netherlands for years. Britain simple does not enforce their drug laws where cannabis is concerned and yet I have never heard of the UN worrying about the how these nations laws would send the wrong message abroad about this dreadful drug.

I hope the UN isn’t expecting the US to be the leader to world any more. After all Obama is a leader from behind kind of despot.

12 posted on 11/20/2012 6:29:42 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Libloather
This is just too humorous.

I can imagine the lefties who live and die for Agenda 21 now being put in a bind over one of their heartfelt issues by the people they look to for help in deconstructing our Constitution.

What ever will they do when their imaginary world clashes with reality?

13 posted on 11/20/2012 6:30:08 PM PST by Baynative
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To: ZULU

bttt


14 posted on 11/20/2012 6:30:30 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Libloather
"The INCB has no enforcement ability."

..snort..

15 posted on 11/20/2012 6:30:37 PM PST by Delta 21 (Oh Crap !! Did I say that out loud ??!??)
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To: Libloather
If I have to chose between pot heads or the u.n.

There is no choice, I'll take the pot heads any day over those bastards at the u.n.

16 posted on 11/20/2012 6:30:43 PM PST by Kakaze (I want The Republic back !)
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To: Libloather

What the heck is a “ballot rollback”?


17 posted on 11/20/2012 6:33:28 PM PST by tobyhill
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Tar and feather him. This is a democracy.
Demand reimbursement for all the dues the USA has payed to the UN. The UN is UNconstitutional and UNamerican. Defund the UN.
18 posted on 11/20/2012 6:36:36 PM PST by jonatron (This is the Land of the Free, the Home of the Brave.)
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To: steve86

Re> I would hope that ... Americans ... would support the voters against these globalist tyrants.

Obama | Romney
55.8 | 41.7 Washington (12)
51.2 | 46.5 Colorado (9)

I should support them? They are already rotten from the inside. I suspect Arizona might resist UN interference. Probably not for much longer though. But these two are past the point.


19 posted on 11/20/2012 6:38:34 PM PST by ri4dc (Cut your cable. You'll need the extra dough later on.)
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To: Libloather
It's the UN's wet dream to run international drug enforcement operations.

Just think of all the asset-forfeiture land they could acquire for the UN Empire.

20 posted on 11/20/2012 6:38:55 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the psychopath.)
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