Posted on 09/11/2014 11:09:05 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom
A commission composed mostly of former world leaders will recommend Tuesday that governments move beyond legalizing marijuana and decriminalize and regulate the use of most other illegal drugs, including heroin and cocaine.
The international drug-control system is broken, says a report to be released Tuesday in New York by the Global Commission on Drug Policy.
Governments should be allowed wide latitude to experiment with the regulation of drugs, except for the most lethal, says the commission, whose 21 members include former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, and former presidents such as Brazil´s Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Mexico´s Ernesto Zedillo and Colombia´s César Gaviria.
"We have to control drugs, which are out of control," Mr. Cardoso said in a telephone interview. "Some lethal drugs have to be prohibited…but the guiding principle has to be to guarantee the health and safety of people."
The report is the latest indication that the U.S.-led war on drugs is faltering—even in the U.S., where 23 states now allow for medical marijuana, while two, Washington and Colorado, voted in 2012 to legalize marijuana. Last year, Uruguay became the first country in the world to legalize marijuana use and regulate its production. [...]
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Sounds like a dream for many libertarian self medicating drug warriors.
Sounds like a dream for many libertarian self medicating drug warriors.
Yeah, they’re going to be just peachy with being “regulated.” Taxes? I don’t think so. ID laws? I don’t think so.
The black market will continue, except now EBT card holders will be able to purchase their first legal supply for the month on their EBT cards, and then the rest they’ll get from the black market.
I also believe in the Tooth Fairy.
Cr*p, where will I get the PCP to lace my Swisher Sweets?
Why don't you think so? We have taxes and ID laws for alcohol, and they work better than leaving it to the black market.
The black market will continue
Like it did with alcohol when we relegalized and regulated that mind-altering drug?
Now we have a situation where laws are no longer. We are living in a lawless society.
Those of us who still honor the rule of law are ridiculed.
Eric Holder tells the state AGs that they have permission from him to honor only the laws they feel like honoring.
WTF
lol i knew it was only a matter of time before they whipped this suggestion out!
Mike
Here comes the wailing and gnashing.
Go ahead... let natural selection take it’s course.
Yep. It’s called freedom.
What did parents tell their kids about drugs before 1900 or so when they were legal? What do they say now about alcohol, tobacco, and premarital sex?
Parents who rely on the law are abdicating their responsibilities.
Yes please! Let the Obamabot libbies overdose in their stupor. Several less votes for Communism later in the future.
people still making moonshine and selling it.
"We have to control ____, which are out of control"
Government of all types seeks only to gain more power, more control, and more authority. These days, they apparently only need to declare something "out of control", and can therefore feel justified in controlling yet another area of our lives, to our detriment.
However...
And I'm all for limited government, with all my heart, and I hate all possession laws (firearms, too)...
but having known a few unfortunate souls who decided at some point that heroin was a good idea, and seeing what the next few decades of their lives became, I'm fine with outlawing that particular monster.
Just like you can’t have unlimited immigration and the welfare state, you definitely can not have legal drugs and the welfare state.
If so, you will see the costs of drugs drop, the number of addicts rise, and the cost to society will sky-rocket. It basically will become a big subsidy to drug-dealers
Get rid of the welfare state first, and raise the personal costs and risk of drug use, and then get back to me.
Pure simple insanity
people still making moonshine and selling it.
Nowhere near as much as when that drug was illegal - and nowhere near as much as is the case for currently illegal drugs.
“Here comes the wailing and gnashing.”
And the lame comments about “dude” and “munchies”.
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