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In reply to the discussion: Just heard this. Cuba and Venezuela will not be invited to the Conference of the Americas. [View all]AntivaxHunters
(3,234 posts)26. Ike?
Try everyone who's come after him too.
We destabilized countries in Central America & South America with intention of toppling their governments. What do you think would happen?
You're worried about drugs yet we still don't even have legalized weed in this country. You want to end drug problems coming in from south of the border? Start with the decriminalization of illicit drugs like Canada just did in British Columbia. You take away the profits of cartels and they they decline fast. But instead we're locking people up, often time for decades, because they committed their 3rd strike for having a few ounces of weed on them.
Ya, miss me with that.
British Columbia to decriminalize small amounts of cocaine, heroin
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/31/british-columbia-decriminalize-cocaine-opioids-meth/
TORONTO The possession of small amounts of several illicit drugs, including cocaine and opioids such as fentanyl or heroin, will be temporarily decriminalized in British Columbia, the federal government said Tuesday, in what it cast as a bold step to turn the tide in the provinces overdose crisis.
Carolyn Bennett, Canadas minister of mental health and addictions, said Ottawa had granted the provincial governments request for an exemption from the federal Controlled Drugs and Substances Act for three years, starting Jan. 31, 2023.
As of that date, adults 18 and older in Canadas westernmost province will be allowed to carry a cumulative total of up to 2.5 grams of some drugs for personal use without being arrested or charged, or having their drugs confiscated. The illicit drugs include opioids, cocaine, methamphetamine and MDMA, also known as ecstasy.
The trafficking, production, exportation and importation of those drugs will remain illegal, as will the possession of any quantity of those drugs at airports, near child-care facilities and primary and secondary schools, or by members of the military.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/31/british-columbia-decriminalize-cocaine-opioids-meth/
TORONTO The possession of small amounts of several illicit drugs, including cocaine and opioids such as fentanyl or heroin, will be temporarily decriminalized in British Columbia, the federal government said Tuesday, in what it cast as a bold step to turn the tide in the provinces overdose crisis.
Carolyn Bennett, Canadas minister of mental health and addictions, said Ottawa had granted the provincial governments request for an exemption from the federal Controlled Drugs and Substances Act for three years, starting Jan. 31, 2023.
As of that date, adults 18 and older in Canadas westernmost province will be allowed to carry a cumulative total of up to 2.5 grams of some drugs for personal use without being arrested or charged, or having their drugs confiscated. The illicit drugs include opioids, cocaine, methamphetamine and MDMA, also known as ecstasy.
The trafficking, production, exportation and importation of those drugs will remain illegal, as will the possession of any quantity of those drugs at airports, near child-care facilities and primary and secondary schools, or by members of the military.
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Just heard this. Cuba and Venezuela will not be invited to the Conference of the Americas. [View all]
Samrob
Jun 2022
OP
It is hypocritically selective and stinks of exclusivity based on interferences we were party to.
Magoo48
Jun 2022
#7
Heck we used to have one poster who insisted Cuba was a functioning Democracy
EX500rider
Jun 2022
#29