Critics Fight Back Against UN Orders to Expand the Global Drug War

[FrankRep]

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As the UN calls for further expansion of the failed "war on drugs," critics of the policies, from American law enforcement to some heads of state, are calling for a new approach.


As UN Orders Expanded Global Drug War, Critics Fight Back (http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/14792-as-un-orders-expanded-global-drug-war-critics-fight-back)


The New American (http://www.thenewamerican.com/)
15 March 2013



Despite openly admitting that drug use has not declined after decades of prohibition, the top global narcotics bureaucrat claimed the UN-mandated drug war must expand.


After Admitting Failure, UN Targets U.S. and Demands Expanded Drug War (http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/14785-after-admitting-failure-un-targets-u-s-and-demands-expanded-drug-war)


The New American (http://www.thenewamerican.com/)
14 March 2013


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[Kotin]

interesting.. I never really looked at the drug war as a globalist issue but it seems they are more invested in this than I previously imagined... do you have background on the UN's involvement and motives for this world wide drug war? I knew the CIA and Wall Street were profiting from this and the prison industry and the cops(overtime) and a host of others but internationalists? I guess they have the same motives just a larger scale.

[FrankRep]

interesting.. I never really looked at the drug war as a globalist issue but it seems they are more invested in this than I previously imagined... do you have background on the UN's involvement and motives for this world wide drug war?

When I have time I could compile some data, but the United Nations have been involved in the Drug War since 1961. Cannabis is also on that list.


UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN_Single_Convention_on_Narcotic_Drugs)


Overview

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 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_for_Limiting_the_Manufacture_and_Regula ting_the_Distribution_of_Narcotic_Drugs) to include the vast number of synthetic opioids invented in the intervening thirty 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 and related drugs; research on fentanyls and piritramide was also nearing fruition at that 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 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 (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, 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.

[FrankRep]

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[Kotin]

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[jkr]

i want to know this:
was there a bigg problem with cannabis pre 1937?
was there a big enough problem WORLDWIDE with "drugs" in general?
or have they been controlling us for the fun of it, what food to eat- or not... EVERYTHING?

[surf]

it's come up in my state, and the reaction i'd like to see my governor and AG take is to tell the UN to go [to hell].

i'd also like them to tell Holder and Kerlikowski to do the same and to station our national guard along our borders to keep DEA and other federal drug warriors from crossing the border from Oregon.

actually, we should just keep everyone from Oregon from entering; particularly Ducks and Timbers fans. Go Sounders!

[NIU Students for Liberty]

i want to know this:
was there a bigg problem with cannabis pre 1937?

Was there a big problem? WAS THERE A BIG PROBLEM???!!!

http://www.impawards.com/1942/posters/devils_harvest.jpg

[surf]

Was there a big problem? WAS THERE A BIG PROBLEM???!!!

http://www.impawards.com/1942/posters/devils_harvest.jpg
as is generally the case, it comes down to much-needed protections for white women. the black men smoke pot and have sex with white women, just like the Chinese men did with their opium and the unprotected white women.