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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)85. They can't tax what you grow in your backyard.
But they will likely zone MJ out of residential areas as you don't want little kiddies running accross it. Also, why should I go to all the expense and trouble when I can go to the local MJ store and pick up some Alaskan Thunderfuck? You won't see me working out in the garden.
I can see trying some experiments with grow lights inside, but my staple supplies would be coming from the local, dependable, muti-variety MJ store. I think the taxes collected would be a good thing. Now all the stoners can help reduce the deficit too!
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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