The United Nations International Narcotics Control Board has warned Uruguay that its legalization of marijuana sales are in violation of a 1961 treaty, the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs.
The treaty, pushed by the United States at the time, obliges the whole planet to criminalize marijuana, and the INCB has regularly threatened “sanctions” on violators, though in practice this seems virtually impossible to implement.
Uruguay made the move to decriminalize purchases of up to 40g per month, saying it would curb the growth of drug cartels that trade in illegal substances. The INCB countered that it “endangers young people.”
The INCB’s chief Raymond Yans has issued similar warnings to the US repeatedly over the past few years, every time various states or municipalities eliminate marijuana penalties. Those threats haven’t done anything to stop the momentum toward legalization in the US, and Uruguay is likely to go the same route.
Did Uruguay sign the treaty in 1961? If not, they should tell the UN to shove it.
Fair enough, Uruguay should solve the problem by withdrawing from the treaty.
Take a look at INCB’s chief Raymond Yans. (google pic) What a foul looking POS. And he is telling Uruguay how to run their country. The UN is corrupt and rotten to the core. Hey UN what about the DU that has been dropped all over the Middle East? WHEN ARE YOU GETTING ON THE NUCLEAR MESS IN JAPAN? How about all the mass murder the US and friends have caused over the last 30 years? What about the TONS of HERION pouring out of Afghanistan? What about the PROVEN medical properties that Marijuana has and how not ONE person has ever overdosed from it but big Pharma has 100,000 deaths a year from their "legal" stuff…….that's what I thought. DROP DEAD YOU VILE POS.
I'm personally not in favour of the legalization of drugs; but I'm not in favour of their criminalization either.
Whether Uruguay signed the treaty or not is irrelevant; in any case Uruguay can still withdraw from an organization that serves to promote colonial wars of aggression.
Uruguay is a sovereign nation. How it runs its affairs are its own business. They should withdraw from the treaty. The UN should be renamed the Divided nations.
So what does that mean to the US states who have legalized Marijuana sales? California and some others have made it lawful to sell! I can also think of other more serious activities of other friendlier states to the US that are just patently ignored, including wholesale breaches of UN security council resolutions, time to get priorities right for a change,
Since when did the US honor its treaty obligations? Let's all smoke a peace pipe with Sitting Bull.
Treaties are like young girls and roses, . . . they last while they last.
Charles De Gaulle
Normally I regard Charles De Gaulle as an almost complete and perfect ass-wipe, . . . but i have to say, he is on the money here.
Prohibition has (again) evolved local gangs into transnational enterprises with intricate power structures that reach into every corner of society, helping them control vast swaths of territory while gifting them with significant social and military resources. Former and present Prohibitionists must not be allowed to remain untainted or untouched by the unconscionable acts that they have viciously committed on their fellow human beings. They have provided us with neither safe communities nor safe streets. We will provide them with neither a safe haven to enjoy their ill-gotten gains nor the liberty to repeat such a similar atrocity.
Those responsible for this shameful policy—parasitic prohibitionists like the INCB—should not go unpunished!
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/mar/05/re…