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FYI WilliamPitt Mar 2013 #1
RawStory has permission to post Guardian articles not unlike ABC posting AP articles. Here is Purveyor Mar 2013 #8
Aaaaahhhh... WilliamPitt Mar 2013 #10
Oh well. Too bad for the U.N. n/t Downtown Hound Mar 2013 #2
That should make American conservatives want to legalize it. Scuba Mar 2013 #3
But if Obama backs legalization Ezlivin Mar 2013 #4
What else can be done to help explode their heads? LiberalFighter Mar 2013 #38
The republicans I know favor legalization Puzzledtraveller Mar 2013 #53
Oh, teh irony! bluedigger Mar 2013 #5
Exactly what I was thinking! Dustlawyer Mar 2013 #7
yes this will cause some confusion Enrique Mar 2013 #21
Message auto-removed Bashaer Mar 2013 #39
Bwahahhahaaa! cyberswede Mar 2013 #41
There are people christx30 Mar 2013 #42
Message auto-removed Bashaer Mar 2013 #49
If conservatives want to limit abortion and gay marriage, OGKush Mar 2013 #73
Check out the christx30 Mar 2013 #75
I can't argue with you at all. N/t OGKush Mar 2013 #77
Each side christx30 Mar 2013 #78
Exactly. I don't want people telling me what is good for me. OGKush Mar 2013 #80
Soda size, drugs, and guns seem to be the most common. ZombieHorde Mar 2013 #81
Your right iandhr Mar 2013 #50
Using alcohol can kill you. JDPriestly Mar 2013 #6
Drug cartels are now funding the UN since we don't pay what we're supposed to. xtraxritical Mar 2013 #25
Big tax bucks on booze ConcernedCanuk Mar 2013 #28
BTW Nixon installed the first "drug czar" and he created the "war on drugs". xtraxritical Mar 2013 #72
Why is MJ still a schedule 1 drug, and why is alcohol not on ANY schedule? AAO Mar 2013 #34
As I said in another post in this thread - taxes ConcernedCanuk Mar 2013 #74
They can't tax what you grow in your backyard. AAO Mar 2013 #85
What goes on in the U.S. stays in the U.S. - Tough shit U.N. socialindependocrat Mar 2013 #9
What about Spain and Portgegul where it's already legal? n/t EC Mar 2013 #11
Right on roxy1234 Mar 2013 #46
it's not legal, just tolerated green for victory Mar 2013 #52
Portugal decriminalized, not legalized. RainDog Mar 2013 #47
And ex-DEA goons are whining about it too arcane1 Mar 2013 #12
I must have missed maindawg Mar 2013 #13
Because Portugal, Geneva, Iran, North Korea, Nepal,Pakistan, Spain, Switzerland, and Uruguay AAO Mar 2013 #35
Exactly. silverweb Mar 2013 #43
Read their reports. The INCB criticizes anybody who deviates from prohibitionist orthodoxy. Comrade Grumpy Mar 2013 #62
From the New Maine Times: Revanchist Mar 2013 #67
This message was self-deleted by its author guyton Mar 2013 #14
"we've signed treaties" - oh wow that should do it . . ConcernedCanuk Mar 2013 #30
We gave warm blankets to the natives of the old west. Good quality too. AAO Mar 2013 #36
I know all about that ConcernedCanuk Mar 2013 #64
Of course I know all that - and another Bush will be president over my dead body AAO Mar 2013 #65
The only report of giving small pox blankets to Native Americas was by a BRITISH GENERAL happyslug Mar 2013 #69
I would love that to be true! AAO Mar 2013 #83
Small Pox was highly contagious, you had problem with people taking in their own family members.. happyslug Mar 2013 #84
I'm always amazed at how these "disclosures" occur after the fact. Trillo Mar 2013 #15
How much illegal liquor is coming ashore? SCVDem Mar 2013 #16
and maindawg Mar 2013 #17
There must be a back story to this which we are not hearing yet. GoneFishin Mar 2013 #18
Didn't international drug policy start in the US? felix_numinous Mar 2013 #19
well doh! ConcernedCanuk Mar 2013 #31
DING DING DING!!!! AAO Mar 2013 #37
Raymond Yanz, Narc of the Earth Enrique Mar 2013 #20
He looks like John Bolton's drug rehabed younger brother. marble falls Mar 2013 #23
I wouldn't be a bit surprised Matariki Mar 2013 #22
Yeah, "Criminals In America" for one. AAO Mar 2013 #40
just because one person or a group John2 Mar 2013 #24
The legal system here on earth think Mar 2013 #26
Let's be paranoid. US feds, "convince" UN to raise issue, giving US Feds "permission"... TheMadMonk Mar 2013 #27
Yeah. I have heard the black helicopter nonsense too. GoneFishin Mar 2013 #32
This won't be popular here, but fuck the UN Ter Mar 2013 #29
I like the UN, but this is not the role it should be playing. loudsue Mar 2013 #86
aahhhhhhh... SHADAPPPPP! AAO Mar 2013 #33
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
Removing cannabis from the controlled substances act is the way to go RainDog Mar 2013 #48
Did they get on Portugal's case when Portugal decriminalized drugs? Canuckistanian Mar 2013 #51
The UN is nothing but toothless pomp and circumstance where tyrants outvote democracies. Kurska Mar 2013 #54
I'm starting to see the conservative's point about the UN. n/t Tempest Mar 2013 #55
Is there a formal study that supports this claim? blackspade Mar 2013 #56
oh no's...the conservatives are going to get so confused Fresh_Start Mar 2013 #57
the UN agrees with them- and Eric Holder green for victory Mar 2013 #60
Many conservatives are for legalisation - truedelphi Mar 2013 #63
medical marijuana Buffalo Bull Mar 2013 #58
"a threat to public health and safety" unlike the cholera outbreak YOU caused and refuse to fix. DRoseDARs Mar 2013 #59
The hard-dring drunk Raymond Yans should go fuck himself! GreenTea Mar 2013 #61
Never thought I'd say this, but FUCK THE UN! FiveGoodMen Mar 2013 #66
Had I been around, I would have said the same thing in 1948...eom Purveyor Mar 2013 #71
I agree with you, having thought highly of the UN in the past, they don't trump democracy Uncle Joe Mar 2013 #82
So? bemildred Mar 2013 #68
Too fucking bad. nt hack89 Mar 2013 #70
Did all the genocides stop??? Kalidurga Mar 2013 #76
Well, then let them send the lads in the powder blue helmets to enforce geek tragedy Mar 2013 #79
Something is not right about this. Quantess Mar 2013 #87
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