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In reply to the discussion: United Nations Says Changing U.S. Marijuana Laws Violate International Drug Conventions [View all]Revanchist
(1,375 posts)67. From the New Maine Times:
There is evidence that one of the leading newspaper owners of the day, William Randolph Hearst, actively campaigned to criminalize marijuana. Not because he feared its effects, however. Hearst owned huge tracts of redwood forests in Northern California and wanted to use his trees for newsprint. To make that work, he had to somehow undercut the price of hemp, which was a much cheaper and more sustainable source for paper. Hearst had friends in high places, including presidents and governors, and his newspaper's tirade against hemp won the day.
[link:http://www.newmainetimes.org/articles/2011/04/26/marijuana-legalization-other-green-debate/|
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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