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In reply to the discussion: United Nations Says Changing U.S. Marijuana Laws Violate International Drug Conventions [View all]AAO
(3,300 posts)65. Of course I know all that - and another Bush will be president over my dead body
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United Nations Says Changing U.S. Marijuana Laws Violate International Drug Conventions [View all]
Purveyor
Mar 2013
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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