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You mean the UN finally took a break from passing frivolous resolutions against Israel, while ignoring two bit tin-pot genocidal dictators the world over? Say it ain't so...

The UN has become a forum for crybabies. Its contemporary utility is dubious at best.

I read the title as "Stoners and Librarians".

 whembly wrote:
Yup... not enforciable unless the Treaty is ratified by Senate. So... meh.

The treaty has been ratified since the 1960s. The whole thing was largely your idea.

It's just that your country is now kind of changing your opinion on cannabis, in breach of a treaty you signed and ratified decades ago.

From there, the sensible thing would be to get the UN to changes the treaty in regards to pot. You're the 600lb gorilla of world affairs, and it's just pot, and the convention already has provisions for legal harvesting, so that wouldn't be particularly hard. But this is America we're talking about, and your ideas about the UN are very weird, and getting weirder by the day, so the idea of re-negotiating the treaty is something you don't even seem to have thought of.


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 Soladrin wrote:
Aren't the Netherlands in the UN..? They never hassle us about it. Though our drugs are in a bit of a in between the rules kind of spot.

Just reading about it, the treaty doesn't say cannabis (or opium for that matter) can't be legally grown and used. Just that it has to follow specific government controls on harvesting and sale (so government can reliably know exactly how much is being grown, and where its going).

I don't know the new US laws very well, but I'm guessing you're allowed to grow and sell without any government interaction?

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
Legalize it.

Tax it.

Use revenue for state healthcare.

I'd grow it myself. I wouldn't get taxed that way.

 NuggzTheNinja wrote:
You mean the UN finally took a break from passing frivolous resolutions against Israel, while ignoring two bit tin-pot genocidal dictators the world over? Say it ain't so...

The UN has become a forum for crybabies. Its contemporary utility is dubious at best.

You confuse the UN with the general assembly, and have no idea how it works or why it does so.

Protip - don't confuse what makes the nightly news with the work that actually gets done day to day. To do so is to think the life of a police man is daily shoot outs, and the work of the UN is purely general assembly statements against the human rights abuses of Israel.