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In reply to the discussion: United Nations Says Changing U.S. Marijuana Laws Violate International Drug Conventions [View all]ConcernedCanuk
(13,509 posts)74. As I said in another post in this thread - taxes
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In Canada, taxes account for around 80% of the price of booze.
same for cigarettes
If the gov't succeeds in encouraging people to stop smoking and drinking -
they will lose Billions of dollars in tax income
how can they tax something ya can grow in your backyard??
,nuther thing
mj is better for your health than either booze or cigarettes
Social Security would take a hit from people living longer . .
AND
if the nation starts smokin' up the evil weed . .
who's gonna support all their wars??
smokers ain't fighters
get too mellow . .
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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