tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28543539.post1328664336192313442..comments2023-09-20T11:15:28.673+01:00Comments on Transform Drug Policy Foundation Blog: UN bodies betray principles of peace by supporting the war on drugsjanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15263261726046054614noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28543539.post-73044879276719540302009-03-13T11:18:00.000+00:002009-03-13T11:18:00.000+00:00We are living in a dictatorship world, how democra...We are living in a dictatorship world, how democratic is the UN? Less toxic than tobacco but has more benefits to society than the use of tobacco and is so heavily disliked due to old misinfomed ideals of old times when slavery was still legal in some countries back when the prohibition laws were first introduced, are the governing bodies of world this blind? Yes the drug policy does need to be reformed as this was a gift, for medical treatment of conditions for which it does treat!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28543539.post-45683386497632543872009-03-09T13:17:00.000+00:002009-03-09T13:17:00.000+00:00Read Ed Howker in the Independent page 27 today, 9...Read Ed Howker in the Independent page 27 today, 9 March.<BR/><BR/>He says it all - again.mickhumphreyshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03628630698538613064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28543539.post-89589301870809958372009-03-08T05:26:00.000+00:002009-03-08T05:26:00.000+00:00What may force the reality of the failure of drug ...What may force the reality of the failure of drug prohibition into the consciousness of politicians in democratic nations engaging in drug prohibition is the fact that the global financial system is disintegrating before our eyes, and with it the means of nation-states to engage in the DrugWar.<BR/><BR/>The global liquidity crisis is but the natural outcome of profligate spending by the US on all manner of things...including the DrugWar. <BR/><BR/>But that spending was itself derived from borrowing vast amounts from creditor nations; the US tax base is not able to support those spending levels. In essence, the DrugWar was paid for with borrowed money...and that's drying up.<BR/><BR/>As the economic crisis worsens, demands for the re-allocation of funding into social welfare programs will become greater, and that will cause debate as to which programs should be cut so others may be supported. And no program provides less utility for the American taxpayer than the DrugWar. Of which cannabis prohibition is the foundation. <BR/><BR/>Remove this cornerstone, and the entire edifice is endangered. Which American DrugWarriors have been acutely aware of for some time, as witnessed by the almost monomaniacal obsession of US policy organs such as the ONDCP in demonizing cannabis despite all the studies that prove that demonization unwarranted. The only two things that allowed that process to continue had been a robust economy and political imprimatur which was derived from the reigning party's exercise of power. Which has now been supplanted, courtesy of the last national election. <BR/><BR/>Science, not ideology, the new President has stated, will now govern policy formulation. But one cannot also help but notice that this is said at a time when ideology has already created a huge deficit, thanks to various foreign wars engaged in by the ideologues. Science is basically cheaper than ideology, now. And the science never justified drug prohibition...which now no nation can afford to engage in without some domestic political backlash taking place.<BR/><BR/>The global economic crisis may yet do what all the appeals to sweet reason never have been able to accomplish. If so, it will be a sad commentary upon human nature...but not one without precedent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com