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Posted - 05/31/2011 : 03:04:12
http://www.avaaz.org/en/end_the_war_on_drugs/?slideshow
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In 72 hours, we could finally see the beginning of the end of the ‘war on drugs’. This expensive war has completely failed to curb the plague of drug addiction, while costing countless lives, devastating communities, and funneling trillions of dollars into violent organized crime networks.
Experts all agree that the most sensible policy is to regulate, but politicians are afraid to touch the issue. In days, a global commission including former heads of state and foreign policy chiefs of the UN, EU, US, Brazil, Mexico and more will break the taboo and publicly call for new approaches including decriminalization and regulation of drugs.
This could be a once-in-a-generation tipping-point moment -- if enough of us call for an end to this madness. Politicians say they understand that the war on drugs has failed, but claim the public isn't ready for an alternative. Let's show them we not only accept a sane and humane policy -- we demand it. Sign the petition and share with everyone -- when we reach 1/2 million, it will be personally delivered to world leaders by the global commission.
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Posted - 06/02/2011 : 11:43:08
So this gets a 5 second slot in the news tonight, meanwhile the announcement of the queen's diamond jubilee NEXT YEAR gets plastered all over the shop.
As usual this issue is just swept under the carpet.
How many high profilers speaking out and the urgency to do something about this is it going to take? It feels like nothing is EVER going to change and I'm fucking sick of it. |
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Posted - 06/02/2011 : 01:51:45
You are right. They are all lying bastards.
Got quite a celebrity list on the UK currently petitioning Cameron to take action on this, Dame Judi Dench, Richard Branson, Sting and several former police chiefs...
Ahhh but the politicians know best...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13625241 |
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Posted - 06/01/2011 : 21:51:34
Hate to break the news but Obama is a lying puppet. I heard about the petition from another forum and signed it but guaranteed they're not gonna change a thing. Obama is fighting the war on drugs just as much if not more than any other president. Despite his memo not to raid medical marijuana dispensaries they are still waging war full force against medical marijuana. http://blogs.forbes.com/erikkain/2011/05/06/the-obama-administrations-war-on-medical-marijuana/
Still would be interesting if it gets any reaction though, also if it was advertised more i bet they could've got way more signatures but it is what it is.
I think people are starting to wake up though to just how big a failure the drug war is. |
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Posted - 06/01/2011 : 04:38:41
http://transform-drugs.blogspot.com/2011/06/press-release-war-on-drugs-obama-and.html
War on Drugs - Obama and Cameron can leave a legacy of peace
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On Thursday 2 June the Global Commission on Drug Policy, a panel of world leaders and politicians, will host a press conference at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York to launch a report that describes the drug war as a failure, and calls for a paradigm shift in global drug policy, including the decriminalisation and legal regulation of drugs.
Transform Drug Policy Foundation welcomes the report, because fifty years of global prohibition have resulted in massive levels of crime, destabilised entire nation states, created huge health harms, criminalised 250 million users, and wasted trillions of dollars.
“We call on UK party political leaders to call a ceasefire in their political point scoring, and instead unite to explore peaceful and effective alternatives to the war on drugs.
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