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FrankRep
03-24-2011, 03:35 PM
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On the 50th anniversary of the United Nations (UN) treaty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Convention_on_Narcotic_Drugs) that led to the global “War on Drugs,” a group of prominent officials and legislators from the United Kingdom (U.K.), including the former security chief and the former top prosecutor, declared the battle a failure and formed the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Drug Policy Reform” calling for new policies to deal with problems associated with drugs.


Top UK Officials: United Nations Inspired War on Drugs Failed (http://thenewamerican.com/index.php/world-mainmenu-26/europe-mainmenu-35/6827-top-uk-officials-un-inspired-war-on-drugs-failed)


Alex Newman | The New American (http://thenewamerican.com/)
24 March 2011

FrankRep
03-24-2011, 04:08 PM
I didn't know this.

The United Nations banned drugs on a Global level.

Wikipedia: United Nations > Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Convention_on_Narcotic_Drugs)



The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 is an international treaty to prohibit production and supply of specific (nominally narcotic) drugs and of drugs with similar effects except under licence for specific purposes, such as medical treatment and research. As noted below, its major effects included updating the Paris Convention of 13 July 1931 to include the vast number of synthetic opioids invented in the intervening 30 years and a mechanism for more easily including new ones. From 1931 to 1961 most of the families of synthetic opioids had been developed, including drugs in whatever way related to methadone, pethidine, morphinans and dextromoramide & related drugs; research on fentanyls and piritramide were also nearing fruition at this point.

Earlier treaties had only controlled opium, coca, and derivatives such as morphine, heroin and cocaine. The Single Convention, adopted in 1961, consolidated those treaties and broadened their scope to include cannabis and drugs whose effects are similar to those of the drugs specified. The Commission on Narcotic Drugs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_on_Narcotic_Drugs) and the World Health Organization were empowered to add, remove, and transfer drugs among the treaty's four Schedules of controlled substances. The International Narcotics Control Board was put in charge of administering controls on drug production, international trade, and dispensation. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Office_on_Drugs_and_Crime) (UNODC) was delegated the Board's day-to-day work of monitoring the situation in each country and working with national authorities to ensure compliance with the Single Convention. This treaty has since been supplemented by the Convention on Psychotropic Substances (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_Psychotropic_Substances), which controls LSD, Ecstasy, and other psychoactive pharmaceuticals, and the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_Against_Illicit_Traffic_ in_Narcotic_Drugs_and_Psychotropic_Substances), which strengthens provisions against money laundering and other drug-related offenses.


History (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Convention_on_Narcotic_Drugs#History)



The League of Nations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations) adopted several drug control treaties prior to World War II specifying uniform controls on addictive drugs such as cocaine, opium, and its derivatives. However, the lists of substances to be controlled were fixed in the treaties' text; consequently, the conventions had to periodically be amended or superseded by new treaties in order to keep up with advances in chemistry. The cumbersome process of conference and state-by-state ratification could take decades.

A Canadian Senate committee report notes, "The work of consolidating the existing international drug control treaties into one instrument began in 1948, but it was 1961 before an acceptable third draft was ready." That year, the UN Economic and Social Council convened a plenipotentiary conference of 73 nations for the adoption of a single convention on narcotic drugs. That meeting was known as the United Nations Conference on Narcotic Drugs. Canadian William B. McAllister, Q.C., notes that the participating states organized themselves into five distinct caucuses:

itshappening
03-24-2011, 05:37 PM
why is there a guy doing a line naked?