US recreational cannabis use would violate international laws, UN anti-narcotics panel says

[dontlop]

US recreational cannabis use would violate international laws, UN anti-narcotics panel says

 

Cannabis plants. UN Photo/John Robaton

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14 March 2013 – Implementing the decisions of popular votes held in the United States in Colorado and Washington to allow for the recreational use of cannabis would be a violation of international laws, the United Nations body tasked with monitoring the production and consumption of narcotics worldwide said today.

The move “would be a violation of international law, namely the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961, to which the United States is party,” the President of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), Raymond Yans, told the 56th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs.

In November 2012, the electorate in Colorado and Washington voted to legalize recreational marijuana use in their states. Medical marijuana businesses operate in Colorado, Washington and 16 other states, but the US Government continues to oppose any decriminalization of the drug.

The Office of the US Attorney General said in December 2012 that regardless of any changes in state law, growing, selling or possessing any amount of marijuana remained illegal under federal law.

Mr. Yans called the statement “good but insufficient” and said he hoped that the issue would soon be addressed by the US Government in line with the international drug control treaties.

Based in Vienna, the INCB is an independent and quasi-judicial monitoring body mandated to implement UN international drug control conventions.

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Edited March 15, 2013 by dontlop

[G Zam]

Looks like we'll have to change our 1961 vote !!!!1

[one2one]

we allow cigarettes---which kill 500,000 a year here :

 

why not smoke whatever we feel like ?

[G Zam]

We also kill unborn babies now too. Times change 

[Sentinel7]

Looks like I am going to start smoking pot.

 

 

No Surrender No Retreat and No Compromise

[dontlop]

hey watching america go to pot will make a great book some day

[KiaKaha]

Looks like I am going to start smoking pot.

 

Such a rebel, Sentinel!

 

KK

[Sentinel7]

Such a rebel, Sentinel!

 

KK

In every thing I do

 

No Surrender No Retreat and No Compromise

[tellmewhen]

This is america screw the UN

[balkanbob]

Too many treaties. We have not signed the UN small arms treaty yet.  How do we get out of treaties without war?

[Rayzur]

Good find DontLop.... The UN cried like a little boy the day after the vote was announced, stating the President shouldn't allow this to happen (apparently not understanding the concept of a Republic and State's rights)... I wondered if they were going to let it go or keep whining. I have a couple of questions though... when did pot become a narcotic and pot along with so much more is quite legal in Amsterdam, in a huge variety of venues, cafes, and smoke shops..... so Holland did not sign that agreement... or are they not part of the UN... or...how does that work....