PROHIBITION REPEAL ECHOES IN MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION?

With voter approval of two ballot initiatives in Colorado and Washington for the legalization of marijuana, the two states have taken the unprecedented step of directly challenging the drug's over 40-year federal ban. The success of the measures have drawn national attention, and represents a major victory for the marijuana legalization movement.

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November 20, 2012
UN to Obama Administration: Punish Washington and Colorado for Undermining Global Drug War
Posted by William Grigg on November 20, 2012 04:23 PM

"Local" police prosecute the UN-centered "War on Drugs" in Wilson, North Carolina

The “war on drugs” didn’t begin with Richard Nixon. It is an outgrowth of a 1961 United Nations document called the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which created the framework for a global drug prohibition jihad.

In that same year, the JFK administration published a proposal called “Freedom from War: The United States Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World,” also known as State Department Document 7277. That proposal, which remains the operational framework for U.S. arms control policy, called for the creation of a nationalized, militarized “homeland security force” — in other words, exactly the kind of overtly militarized law enforcement bodies that have been prosecuting the “war on drugs.”

Residents of Washington and Colorado, expressing a winsome and entirely unjustified faith in voting as a means of reining in the state, approved measures decriminalizing recreational use of marijuana. In response, Raymond Yans, head of the UN’s International Narcotics Control Board, has called for Attorney General Eric Holder to ignore the law and continue cracking down on marijuana use and possession. Decriminalizing marijuana use, Yans insists, sends the “wrong message to the rest of the nation and it sends a wrong message abroad."

Like other prohibitionist Pharisees, Yans is willing to see people killed, kidnapped, and caged in order to send a “message.” Most of the same conservatives who properly abhor the UN and all of its works and pomps also support drug prohibition. Now that a high-ranking UN functionary has offered an official directive to Washington demanding that the Obama administration escalate its war against the American people, will conservatives of that ilk finally come out in opposition to drug prohibition?

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H Boi wrote:Once It gets Legalized.. Well lets just say that this world is taking an even bigger step towards the abandonment of its morals. We already live in a nation where drugs, sex, crime, and parties are glorified in the media, because of that we live in a much more openly gay community! the more the government legalized these type of things that are considered sins in the holy scriptures, believe me its just more and more steps towards complete immorality, and a complete neglect of The Holy One we know as Jesus. The so called democrats are open to the idea of legalizing gay marriage, but what will that do? Bring more immorality to the streets! Yes, homosexuality is bad, and of course I am against it, but there is much more to the roots then just a disgust in the act! If it were to get legalized immorality would be more open, and before you know it this nation will be the equivalent of a modern day Sodom(which in my opinion already is). These democrats are remedial to the ways of The Lord, and have no idea to what they are doing......

Just a rant lol...

RC wrote:

If people have to be coerced into living moral lifestyles, then those same people were NOT moral to begin with.

Its the free choices people make that make them either moral or immoral.

Person A wants to smoke weed. But person A decides not to because he doesn't want to break the law, out of fear of state punishment.

Person B lives in a state where weed is legal, but chooses not to smoke weed because he believes its immoral.

Which person has acted out of moral standards?