There's a war goin on and the people on drugs are winning
The war on drugs creates a completely unregulated market that requires no real training to enter....when disadvantaged kids are faced with the choice between minimum wage slave labor or sellin meth and making a few g a week it's fairly obvious what they're going to choose..
Legalisation would disrupt the black market, it would increase the amount of information available thus giving people more freedom to make informed choices, it would allow for much more efficient methods of dealing with addicts and open up new avenues of psychotherapy.
Hemp alone has a ridiculous amount of applications that could be critical considering the changing environment..
After three-quarters of a century of prohibition,
Australia’s cannabis industry is the same financial size
as her gold industry, twice the size of her wine industry
and three-quarters the size of the nation’s beer industry
[1, 24 June 2000 no. 32].
Drug and Alcohol Review (June 2004), 23, 139 – 141
Does anyone honestly believe the Government doesn't have a hand in an industry that size?
Never mind the fact the Tasmania supplies like half the worlds opium outside the U.S (80-20 rule, yeah!)
Now if Afghanistan supplies almost 90% of the world's heroin, and Tassie is the biggest opium producer in the world...hmm
Odd that when reporting this major artery of terrorists' funding, the mainstream media and political machine do not dare to go beyond the poppy fields of Afghanistan and the fairly insignificant low level Afghan warlords overseeing the crops.
We are talking about nearly $40 billion worth of products in the final stage.
Do you believe that those primitive Afghan warlords, clad in shalvars, sporting long ragged beards, and walking with long sticks handle transportation, lab processing, more transportation, distribution, and sophisticated laundering of the proceeds?
This multi billion-dollar industry requires highly sophisticated networks and people..and maybe even a wheatboard or two..
AWB paid approximately $A300 million in trucking fees on its wheat contracts to a Jordanian company, Alia, which owns no trucks.
AWB hired Cohen Group as part of its 'strategy, ' code-named 'Project Rose', to deal with the UN inquiry headed by Paul Volcker and corruption allegations made against it by U.S. wheat farmers and 'hostile US politicians.'
Cohen Group is not a law firm..
But i'm getting off track here...you can think about that wheat stuff for yourself
Professor David Penington - director of the State Government's Drug Task Force said it ten years ago
"A 'War on Drugs,' which is in effect a war on drug users, can never succeed, as the traffickers just have too many ways in which they can brings drugs into the country or manufacture them," Penington said. Penington himself recommended that the government decriminalize marijuana in 1996 as head of Premiere Jeff Kennett's advisory council on drug reform, but the state failed to endorse the measure.
None of this matters anyway.
We signed away our rights to change these laws to the U.S years ago.
The Treaty of Versailles
The Geneva convention
The Vienna Convention
Australia was blown along by the winds of international opinion without genuine commitment or thought". Desmond Manderson
And so we have remained, stuck in the confusion that lawyers love, timid politicians use to make sure nothing is done and conservatives grasp at occassionally
The latest World Drug Report of the UN's International Drug Control Program, released in late June, concedes the crime, the violence and deaths from moonshine in America in those Prohibition years but concludes it is "difficult to extrapolate lessons for modern times"...
Here are a few facts from The Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 1996, published about 90 years down the track from that first conference in Shanghai:
7,9 9 In South and Central America: despite all efforts, more cocaine and heroin is heading for North America than ever before and causing even more drug-related crime and corruption on the way.
7,9 9 In "the biggest illicit drug market in the world", the United States: regular heroin use is rising while more young people than ever are trying cannabis, cocaine, LSD and other hallucinogens. The INCB deplores the referendums held in California and Arizona that have allowed easy use of cannabis "for alleged medical purposes" and congratulates Washington on its firm stand "against such indirect but evident attempts to legalise cannabis". Concern is also expressed that "well-financed, non-profit foundations sponsor institutions that are developing strategies for the legalisation of drugs".
7,9 9 In Asia: heroin is everywhere, opium smoking is being replaced "unfortunately" by heroin-injecting, Burma remains one of the largest opium suppliers to the world, codeine cough syrups are being abused, and cannabis, growing both wild and under cultivation, is supplying Europe.
7,9 9 In Europe: cocaine and heroin are in slight decline, synthetic drugs are on the rise, but cannabis remains the continent's favourite drug. The INCB is very worried about hydroponic cultivation of cannabis indoors - particularly in the Netherlands - and deplores the "ambiguous message" of an energy drink launched in Liechtenstein with the name Ecstasy. But the massive drugs impact of the fall of the Iron Curtain is masked by diplomatic language about "new socio-economic frameworks" needing to find ways "to prevent drug-related crime and to ensure more effective border controls". Drugs can now move unchecked across the former Soviet Union from the "Golden Crescent" of Afghanistan and Pakistan almost to the Baltic.
In the face of all this, the United States and the United Nations expect the world to keep on keeping on, trying to snare with treaties an international industry that turns over $400billion a year...couldn't be because they're getting a share of the profits no...it's that drugs are bad.
The only thing these treaties do is circumscribe and complicate the task of those who actually attempt to deal with the fact drugs are rampant in modern society.
Everyone knows it's a pointless waste of resources...and yet still we waste the resources
Nothing here will change until we fall out of the U.S's arse..as with every other situation currently facing us...
Legalisation would disrupt the black market, it would increase the amount of information available thus giving people more freedom to make informed choices, it would allow for much more efficient methods of dealing with addicts and open up new avenues of psychotherapy.
Hemp alone has a ridiculous amount of applications that could be critical considering the changing environment..
After three-quarters of a century of prohibition,
Australia’s cannabis industry is the same financial size
as her gold industry, twice the size of her wine industry
and three-quarters the size of the nation’s beer industry
[1, 24 June 2000 no. 32].
Drug and Alcohol Review (June 2004), 23, 139 – 141
Does anyone honestly believe the Government doesn't have a hand in an industry that size?
Never mind the fact the Tasmania supplies like half the worlds opium outside the U.S (80-20 rule, yeah!)
Odd that when reporting this major artery of terrorists' funding, the mainstream media and political machine do not dare to go beyond the poppy fields of Afghanistan and the fairly insignificant low level Afghan warlords overseeing the crops.
We are talking about nearly $40 billion worth of products in the final stage.
Do you believe that those primitive Afghan warlords, clad in shalvars, sporting long ragged beards, and walking with long sticks handle transportation, lab processing, more transportation, distribution, and sophisticated laundering of the proceeds?
This multi billion-dollar industry requires highly sophisticated networks and people..and maybe even a wheatboard or two..
AWB paid approximately $A300 million in trucking fees on its wheat contracts to a Jordanian company, Alia, which owns no trucks.
AWB hired Cohen Group as part of its 'strategy, ' code-named 'Project Rose', to deal with the UN inquiry headed by Paul Volcker and corruption allegations made against it by U.S. wheat farmers and 'hostile US politicians.'
Cohen Group is not a law firm..
But i'm getting off track here...you can think about that wheat stuff for yourself
Professor David Penington - director of the State Government's Drug Task Force said it ten years ago
"A 'War on Drugs,' which is in effect a war on drug users, can never succeed, as the traffickers just have too many ways in which they can brings drugs into the country or manufacture them," Penington said. Penington himself recommended that the government decriminalize marijuana in 1996 as head of Premiere Jeff Kennett's advisory council on drug reform, but the state failed to endorse the measure.
None of this matters anyway.
We signed away our rights to change these laws to the U.S years ago.
The Treaty of Versailles
The Geneva convention
The Vienna Convention
Australia was blown along by the winds of international opinion without genuine commitment or thought". Desmond Manderson
And so we have remained, stuck in the confusion that lawyers love, timid politicians use to make sure nothing is done and conservatives grasp at occassionally
The latest World Drug Report of the UN's International Drug Control Program, released in late June, concedes the crime, the violence and deaths from moonshine in America in those Prohibition years but concludes it is "difficult to extrapolate lessons for modern times"...
Here are a few facts from The Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 1996, published about 90 years down the track from that first conference in Shanghai:
7,9 9 In South and Central America: despite all efforts, more cocaine and heroin is heading for North America than ever before and causing even more drug-related crime and corruption on the way.
7,9 9 In "the biggest illicit drug market in the world", the United States: regular heroin use is rising while more young people than ever are trying cannabis, cocaine, LSD and other hallucinogens. The INCB deplores the referendums held in California and Arizona that have allowed easy use of cannabis "for alleged medical purposes" and congratulates Washington on its firm stand "against such indirect but evident attempts to legalise cannabis". Concern is also expressed that "well-financed, non-profit foundations sponsor institutions that are developing strategies for the legalisation of drugs".
7,9 9 In Asia: heroin is everywhere, opium smoking is being replaced "unfortunately" by heroin-injecting, Burma remains one of the largest opium suppliers to the world, codeine cough syrups are being abused, and cannabis, growing both wild and under cultivation, is supplying Europe.
7,9 9 In Europe: cocaine and heroin are in slight decline, synthetic drugs are on the rise, but cannabis remains the continent's favourite drug. The INCB is very worried about hydroponic cultivation of cannabis indoors - particularly in the Netherlands - and deplores the "ambiguous message" of an energy drink launched in Liechtenstein with the name Ecstasy. But the massive drugs impact of the fall of the Iron Curtain is masked by diplomatic language about "new socio-economic frameworks" needing to find ways "to prevent drug-related crime and to ensure more effective border controls". Drugs can now move unchecked across the former Soviet Union from the "Golden Crescent" of Afghanistan and Pakistan almost to the Baltic.
In the face of all this, the United States and the United Nations expect the world to keep on keeping on, trying to snare with treaties an international industry that turns over $400billion a year...couldn't be because they're getting a share of the profits no...it's that drugs are bad.
The only thing these treaties do is circumscribe and complicate the task of those who actually attempt to deal with the fact drugs are rampant in modern society.
Everyone knows it's a pointless waste of resources...and yet still we waste the resources
Nothing here will change until we fall out of the U.S's arse..as with every other situation currently facing us...
Its amazing how many friends I know who smoke reefer, yet think it should remain illegal (one friend used the argument ¨well, I wouldnt want my younger sister smoking it¨).
I dont really get it, and yet thats what I see happening.
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