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 falteringeven 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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Not clear on what you meant. Do you support confining fedgov to constitutional limits and letting the states decide intrastate drug policies, per the Tenth Amendment?
Don't forget home beer brewers and pot growers.....
I thought the government funded methadone clinics which sprouted up during the 1970's were supposed to end the opiate drug epidemic..............?
A comedian once said “Heroin must be awesome! I mean I smoke pot, but I never woke up in the morning and said, wow that was so good, I don’t need a job anymore! Screw that whole paying rent and living in a house.. Who needs a drivers license? That stuff must be great!”
Already covered in post #19.
To: corkomanRecreational drug warriors are wetting their pants and EBT cards hoping for this.
72 posted on 9/11/2014, 2:14:17 PM by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)To: corkomanRecreational drug warriors are wetting their pants and EBT cards hoping for this.
73 posted on 9/11/2014, 2:14:19 PM by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)To: corkomanRecreational drug warriors are wetting their pants and EBT cards hoping for this.
74 posted on 9/11/2014, 2:14:21 PM by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)To: corkomanRecreational drug warriors are wetting their pants and EBT cards hoping for this.
Somebody else seems awfully excited too ...
Lol - thanks. No marijuana thread would be complete without the requisite cornball stupidity.
He wasn’t that bad, just saying the usual BS and generalizations.
There. Fixed it.
Whoa their hoss. With great individual freedom comes great individual responsibility. Your statement makes it sound like you think, "With great collective freedom comes great collective responsibility." I don't think that's what you want to say.
Our error is the welfare state. We took away individual responsibility and with it, inevitably, our freedoms are taken as well. "Protecting" individuals from themselves has always been a mistake. Whether it's the use of a hammer to make things illegal or the use of a carrot by giving away freebies to make people dependent. Both approaches are interdependent. You can't have one without the other. With one, the other inevitably follows.
Dependency on chemicals is a horrible thing that is difficult for the individual to overcome. It kills individuals and the family. Dependency on the government kills the incentive to choose the right path on one's own and destroys society.
You hate libertarians. Fine. At least work with them to dismantle the welfare state. Once that is done, let's see how much of a drug war there is left to fight. I very seriously doubt it will be much of an issue.
I'd say heroin and cocaine would be two of them. So, why is your little "commission" meeting?
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“The commies (these commission “leaders”) know that people are easier to control and enslave when they are wacked out on drugs. People who are high all of the time don’t care much about things like freedom and liberty.”
Bwahahahaha!!!
Have *you* ever had a child who was into drugs? *Controllable??* Not on your life!
You know what they *didn’t* have access to?
Alcohol.
They could get *anything* at school, but couldn’t get a hold of booze. (Unless they could sneak a little bit from their parents) Why? Because it’s regulated and adults wouldn’t give them access. Mister Liquor Store Owner doesn’t want to lose his license.
But Mister Drug Dealer doesn’t care if he’s selling to an eleven year old.
I’m afraid the 4x posting was due to the site and not me.
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