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In reply to the discussion: United Nations Says Changing U.S. Marijuana Laws Violate International Drug Conventions [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)44. Perhaps a consideration of the Preamble of the Declaration of Independence will help:
...Having served its original purpose in announcing independence, the text of the Declaration was initially ignored after the American Revolution. Since then, it has come to be considered a major statement on human rights, particularly its second sentence:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence#Annotated_text_of_the_Declaration
The Declaration of Independence is not the United States Constitution, which was written years after it, nor did it list of treaties, but the Conclusion of the Declaration specifically does allow contracting alliances....
Americans and many people of the world have been inspired by that statement in their desire to enlarge human rights. How treaties will be enforced or not enforced, can certainly be argued. The UN charter appears to be more of a suggestion for standards of behavior voluntarily carried out and only the treaty states can decide. There may be actions that can be acted upon, but only with a majority agreeing to take action. I don't know what action the UN could take against the USA for not going along with them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty#Role_of_the_United_Nations
Some Americans will define recreational drug use as part of their unalienable Right to the pursuit of Happiness. That's the logic here, no matter what anyone says about drug use, medicinal or recreational.
BTW, I do not partake nor do I plan on doing so. I can't afford recreation. I voted for legalization since I've had engrained in me since childhood the concepts listed above that allows for individuals to live in diverse ways.
But I don't agree with any pursuit of Happiness that harms others or takes away their unalienable Right to their pursuit of Happiness, such as expecting others to deal with any person's crazymaking, abuse, smoke or whatever from what they want to do.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence#Annotated_text_of_the_Declaration
The Declaration of Independence is not the United States Constitution, which was written years after it, nor did it list of treaties, but the Conclusion of the Declaration specifically does allow contracting alliances....
Americans and many people of the world have been inspired by that statement in their desire to enlarge human rights. How treaties will be enforced or not enforced, can certainly be argued. The UN charter appears to be more of a suggestion for standards of behavior voluntarily carried out and only the treaty states can decide. There may be actions that can be acted upon, but only with a majority agreeing to take action. I don't know what action the UN could take against the USA for not going along with them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty#Role_of_the_United_Nations
Some Americans will define recreational drug use as part of their unalienable Right to the pursuit of Happiness. That's the logic here, no matter what anyone says about drug use, medicinal or recreational.
BTW, I do not partake nor do I plan on doing so. I can't afford recreation. I voted for legalization since I've had engrained in me since childhood the concepts listed above that allows for individuals to live in diverse ways.
But I don't agree with any pursuit of Happiness that harms others or takes away their unalienable Right to their pursuit of Happiness, such as expecting others to deal with any person's crazymaking, abuse, smoke or whatever from what they want to do.
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United Nations Says Changing U.S. Marijuana Laws Violate International Drug Conventions [View all]
Purveyor
Mar 2013
OP
RawStory has permission to post Guardian articles not unlike ABC posting AP articles. Here is
Purveyor
Mar 2013
#8
Drug cartels are now funding the UN since we don't pay what we're supposed to.
xtraxritical
Mar 2013
#25
BTW Nixon installed the first "drug czar" and he created the "war on drugs".
xtraxritical
Mar 2013
#72
Because Portugal, Geneva, Iran, North Korea, Nepal,Pakistan, Spain, Switzerland, and Uruguay
AAO
Mar 2013
#35
Read their reports. The INCB criticizes anybody who deviates from prohibitionist orthodoxy.
Comrade Grumpy
Mar 2013
#62
The only report of giving small pox blankets to Native Americas was by a BRITISH GENERAL
happyslug
Mar 2013
#69
Small Pox was highly contagious, you had problem with people taking in their own family members..
happyslug
Mar 2013
#84
Let's be paranoid. US feds, "convince" UN to raise issue, giving US Feds "permission"...
TheMadMonk
Mar 2013
#27
Perhaps a consideration of the Preamble of the Declaration of Independence will help:
freshwest
Mar 2013
#44
This is the INCB. It's their job to hector countries that want to reform drug laws.
Comrade Grumpy
Mar 2013
#45
The UN is nothing but toothless pomp and circumstance where tyrants outvote democracies.
Kurska
Mar 2013
#54
"a threat to public health and safety" unlike the cholera outbreak YOU caused and refuse to fix.
DRoseDARs
Mar 2013
#59
I agree with you, having thought highly of the UN in the past, they don't trump democracy
Uncle Joe
Mar 2013
#82