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Newsbrief:
Nordic
Prohibitionists
Beginning
Counter-Campaign
Supporting
UN
Drug
Conventions
11/8/02
Rabid Swedish prohibitionists
are not taking perceived threats to the United Nations' Single Convention
on Narcotics lightly. Already upset that anti-prohibitionists met
in facilities of the European Union last month to plan an offensive against
the Convention, the legal backbone of the global prohibition regime, the
Hassela Nordic Network is now striking back with an declaration in support
of the current set of UN treaties. They are up for review in Vienna
in April.
Hassela's "Vienna Declaration"
warns that: "For several years individuals and organisations have
made efforts to undermine the UN Conventions on Drugs and to disregard
the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in order to facilitate drug
use and even promote legalisation of certain drugs, the ultimate purpose
being to end prohibition to use illicit drugs. By trying to promote
pro-drug ideas in political settings, pro-drug advocates obviously hope
to make their disastrous agenda look decent... Efforts to legalise drugs
are a serious violation of the contents of the UN Conventions on Drugs,
and the UN Convention on the Rights of the child, especially article 33:
States Parties shall take appropriate measures, including legislative,
administrative, social and educational measures, to protect children from
the illicit use of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances as defined
in the relevant international treaties and to prevent the use of children
in the illicit production and trafficking of such substances."
And then the Swedes asked
what they thought were the provocative questions: "Do you want your
children to have easier access to drugs? Do you want more drugs and
violence in your neighbourhood? Do you want to support the marijuana
industries or industries producing other illicit drugs?"
It looks like tough stuff,
but as of Friday morning Hassela's web site reported no signatories.
Sadly for US citizens, while Hassela represents the extremist fringe of
European prohibitionist sentiment, they could find numerous allies among
officeholders from both mainstream political parties here.
Visit http://www.hnnsweden.com/declaration.htm
to view the declaration online.
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Issue #262, 11/8/02
Editorial: More to This Vote Than Meets the Eye | Black Tuesday for Drug Reform | Arizona Steps Back as Decrim Initiative Loses, Anti-Reform Sentencing Initiative Wins | Legal Pot in Nevada? Not This Year | New York: Pataki Victory Swamps Dems, Golisano, Marijuana Reform Party, Libertarians | Ohio "Treatment Not Jail" Initiative Runs Into Drug War Buzzsaw | No Hemp, No New Rights for Defendants in South Dakota | Wisconsin: Libertarian Thompson Gets Ten Percent | DC Voters Overwhelmingly Approve Treatment Not Jail Initiative | Massachusetts Voters Tell Reps to Support Marijuana Decrim | San Francisco Voters Ask City to Look at Growing Its Own | FAMM Victory: Amendment to Cap Federal Guideline Sentences for Low-Level Drug Offenders is Now Law | Colombian Campaign for Drug Legalization | Anti-Prohibitionists Meet Human Rights Advocates and Political Leaders at Albania Congress of Transnational Radical Party | Newsbrief: Nordic Prohibitionists Beginning Counter-Campaign Supporting UN Drug Conventions | Web Scan: Forbes on Hope Taft, Newsday on Tony Papa, New Scientist on Cannabis, Raich v. Ashcroft Lawsuit Docs | Action Alerts: Rave Bill, Medical Marijuana, Higher Education Act Drug Provision, Tulia, Salvia Divinorum | The Reformer's Calendar
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