Liberal Confusion: UN Says US States Pot Legalization Violates International Conventions What is a liberal to do? Their go-to international agency when the good ole USA is veering in a direction they dont like, the vaunted front known as the United Nations, just said that the pushes to legalize marijuana, cannabis, pot, etc., in the United States albeit at a state level are not in line with international drug conventions. Whew thats a lot of words for the pot-addled brains to absorb all at once. But, the effort on the part of the United Nations to influence American law has now been announced. Yury Fedotov, executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), intends to talk to the U.S. State Department about this next week. To the UN, it seems that individual American states voting on what laws to live by within their own borders just doesnt matter. I dont see how (the new laws) can be compatible with existing conventions, Fedotovtold reporters. Wait, theres conventions on pot usage? At the international level? Arent other countries legalizing the stuff? Its not just us. It seems that this is part of a trend. Maybe. On the international level, Uruguays parliament in late 2013 approved a bill to legalize and regulate the production and sale of marijuana the first country to do so. The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) has said Uruguays new bill contravened the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which it says requires states to limit the use of cannabis to medical and scientific purposes, due to its dependence-producing potential. The Vienna-based INCB monitors compliance with this and two other drug control treaties. We have drug control treaties? Did anyone tell the recreational drug use people in the Obama Administration, since they are UN dependent and are the ones that said it was okay for individual states to vote for themselves whether or not to legalize pot? (Laugh now, because this is going to get messy before its all over.) Not that the United Nations or most countries for that matter have much respect for the idea of states rights, but what we have here is one big ole conflict of law brought on by lawmakers not knowing what treaties, conventions and agreements are out there, and approved in decades past. Theres not much excuse for that from a presidential administration. Source article from Reuters. UN treaties are Human Rights violations. Garbage article is garbage An interesting expose for us liberals and pot-addled brains from a conservative with their usual alcohol-addled brain. I am 60 years old and no longer due drugs and the only damage drugs did to my life was caused me to spend a fortune in lawyers to get out drug bust . I am too a conservative .Prohibition never did work nor will if ever work . Our prisons are busting at the seems with non violent drug offenders and people that should not be on the streets are there on the streets to make room for these drug offenders .The UN has no business trying to tell us what we cant or cant do and we do need to get out of that socialist outdated , good for nothing outfit, the UN. We refuse to obey by Sharia law, UN law is just laughable! Hope my state follows suit and legalizes because it sickens me every time I see these bragging DEA agents laughing it up and talking about how they busted this person or that person essentially acting jovial at ruining a persons life and then in the same breath having the audacity to say that drugs destroy peoples lives. When the fact is that the war on drugs destroys far more lives in one year than drug use ever has. Prohibition never works just look at alcohol prohibition and the mafias that popped up after. We are still dealing with repercussions from that and that was 90 yrs. ago. Thanks to drug prohibition the cartels were born all because the government criminalized what essentially is a moral choice, and morality in a free country should never be enforced. Whether it be about gambling, drugs, prostitution or a gas guzzling SUV. Ok Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck the UN Why is everything happening to the US? All these groups and nutjobs throughout the world wants everything that the US has but wants the US to fail. And if that doesnt take the cake, the UN, a defunct, corrupt organization seems to like making up its own twisted socialist rules and the people who fall for it are the panzy Europeans who have already bent over (forwards) for the crazy Muslims, and the idiotic liberals in the US who think that gun control is somehow going to put an end to violence. First we need to get over this perception that it only people on the left that are pro-legalization. I am pro-legal, and I am as Conservative as they come. I know many Conservatives that are pro-legal. Its more a generation thing. Older people are anti and younger people are pro. With that being said..F**K the U.N.!!! They are a sham. They are nothing but a bunch of idiots trying to rule the world and they have no authority over us. I have long said that we need to withdraw from them, quit funding them, and kick them the hell out of our country. 