Cannabis Sans Frontières

A l’occasion d’un symposium sur la thématique "politiques Drogues"réunissant des diplomates en formation, un dossier de présentation a été réalisé avec quelques copier/coller et des commentaires pour expliciter la situation... comme dans une étude de cas.

Sans connaitre la teneur des échanges, à Barcelone, dans cette rencontre improvisée et sans lien avec les activités de l’UNODC, il est à noter une étrange conception du rôle de la Commission des Stupéfiants de l’ONU, vue comme une "narco-bureaucratie"... Un résumé en deux mots que la communauté des usagerEs de drogues illicites dénonçant les abus de la politique de prohibition et oeuvrant pour la réforme des traités internationaux n’oseraient pas formuler aussi durement.

Cependant, on ne peut que souscrire à ce constat réaliste !

What the United Nations has to say ?

According to a UN report, legal recreational cannabis violates decades-old international drug control treaties and is dangerous for international relations.

The INCB, which –as you know - monitors and supports global, governmental compliance with international drug control treaties, has recently issued its 2017 annual report. The report contains stern warnings to its member states to keep herb illegal.

According to decades-old international drug control treaties signed by most member states, they are supposed to prohibit the non-medical use of cannabis.

However, countries like Uruguay have ended prohibition regardless. According to the INCB’s report, “Governments and jurisdictions in North America have continued to pursue policies with respect to the legalization of the use of cannabis for non-medical purposes, in violation of the 1961 Convention as amended.” The
board strongly cautioned Uruguay, which legalized cannabis nationally in 2013, and sells cannabis in pharmacies, that they are “acting in clear violation” of the drug treaties. “The limitation of the use of controlled substances to medicinal
and scientific purposes is a fundamental principle to which no derogation is permitted under the 1961 Convention as amended,” INCB’s report states.

The U.N. Narco bureaucrats have also set their sights on Jamaica, for having legalized cannabis for “Religious Use” in 2015. Cannabis is considered a religious sacrament among adherents of the Rastafarian religion.