Never mind the evidence - a drug-free world is nigh
source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/05/war-on-drugs-prohibition
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This year marks the 100th anniversary of global drug prohibition, and what an inglorious centenary it is when we consider the millions of lives that have been blighted as a consequence of the war on drugs. And yet the majority of governments have supported a worldwide ban on the cultivation, distribution and use of psychoactive substances ever since the signing of the Shanghai convention, which aimed to target opium use, in 1909.Next week, political leaders gather in Vienna to contemplate the state of international drug policy and sign up to new accords. It is a decade on from the last UN General Assembly special session (UNGASS) on narcotics in New York, which took as its ridiculously gauche slogan "A drug-free world - we can do it". The reality of the past 10 years - from the poppy fields of Afghanistan to Manchester street stabbings - could not have been more different.
UNGASS is accused by some of being little more than a talking shop - its recommendations are, after all, non-binding. But this meeting is a crucial barometer and, for better or worse, will codify the consensus around global drug policy for the next decade. As the International Drug Policy consortium notes in a recent briefing, it's hard to overestimate the devastation caused to individuals and societies across the world by this strict prohibitionist stance.
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And they are still trying to link domestic drug trafficing to Islamic Fundamentalism and terrorism here in South Carolina....why?......one more time.....I don't understand......talk slowly.
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