Legalise some drugs, outlaw others?

[DB008]

Well, this is surely interesting...

Uruguay to legalize, harvest and sell Marijuana at one dollar per gram

MONTEVIDEO, URUGAY – The government of Uruguay sets to one dollar the price of a gram of marijuana, which the state will harvest and sell when parliament passes a law promoted by the government of Jose Mujica. This law seeks to combat drug trafficking in the country.

Although still lacking the pronouncement of the senators around the law, the government considered imminent vote for the project that also enables limited self-cultivation.

The Secretary General of the National Drug Board, Julio Calzada, informed the newspaper El Pais that the marketing of the drug will begin in mid-2014, which “”gives time to harvest and sell“. He said that the product will be delivered to each user upon registration in a database which will not be made ​​public.

Each person can buy up to 40 grams per month, although that number could vary depending on the amount of THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol), the psychoactive component found in Marijuana.

http://hispaniolainfo.com/2013/10/?p=1822



Uruguay plans to sell three marijuana cigarettes for a dollar

"Surely, in the second half of 2014 the system you can start to develop. Allow time to harvest and sell," he told El Pais in July Calzada, Secretary General of the National Drug Board .

The proposed legalization of marijuana has been partially approved in the Lower House, with 50 positive votes against 46 against and three absences. Now subtract a vote in the Senate, although according Calzada, this should not mean any problem.

Therefore, the government has already started working on the implementation of the law and plan basic issues like the price: the drug will cost one dollar per gram and each user, to be recorded in a database that will be made ​​public, may purchase up to 40 grams per month.

The value of the drugs was set so that "can compete" with drug traffickers. "The cost of marijuana at the time of dispensing must be assimilated to the range where you get legal marijuana. The Paraguayan pressing current price, which is what is usually sold here, is at about a dollar a gram . Therefore, we will put marijuana under state control also produced in this price environment, "said Calzada.

http://tinyurl.com/ordm99s

 

[sydboy007]

http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2013/10/supply-and-demand-the-changing-war-on-drugs/

This is also evidenced in how increasing enforcement in order to make drugs harder to get and more expensive has been tried, and failed. In fact, over the last 40 years, the number of drug dealers in prison in the United States has increased by a factor of 15. The prices of heroin and cocaine have fallen by 90%.

 

[prawn_86]

The prices of heroin and cocaine have fallen by 90%.[/I]

Not only that but purity of weed, coke and heroin is all up substantially over that period also. SO not only is it now cheaper, it is also more 'bang for your buck' so to speak.

 

[McLovin]

Not only that but purity of weed, coke and heroin is all up substantially over that period also. SO not only is it now cheaper, it is also more 'bang for your buck' so to speak.

We see Customs parading their latest catch on the TV every few weeks and yet despite that the price of drugs has not risen in 10 years. What a waste of money.

Cocaine in those US border states is ridiculously cheap. $20/gram in Texas, for example.

 

[sinner]

We see Customs parading their latest catch on the TV every few weeks and yet despite that the price of drugs has not risen in 10 years. What a waste of money.

Cocaine in those US border states is ridiculously cheap. $20/gram in Texas, for example.

Has it not become obvious through the various law enforcement efforts that Australian Customs is directly involved in the most hypocritical fashion in bringing the drugs in and keeping the price down?

This is just the latest in a long long string of mostly "swept under the rug" type revelations

http://www.smh.com.au/national/customs-officer-in-court-on-drug-charges-20130902-2t169.html

 

[McLovin]

Has it not become obvious through the various law enforcement efforts that Australian Customs is directly involved in the most hypocritical fashion in bringing the drugs in and keeping the price down?

This is just the latest in a long long string of mostly "swept under the rug" type revelations

http://www.smh.com.au/national/customs-officer-in-court-on-drug-charges-20130902-2t169.html

Do you think it's institutionalised? Personally, I don't. The problem to me seems to be low paid public servants and lots of money on offer to just turn the other way. It will always get a few.

 

[sinner]

Do you think it's institutionalised? Personally, I don't. The problem to me seems to be low paid public servants and lots of money on offer to just turn the other way. It will always get a few.

Not institutionalised, but definitely not as simple as the dismissive "it's just a few bad apples" would like you to think either.

Take a look at the Mark Standen case. Or the 1995 Royal Commission into NSW Police Force. Spend an hour on the "Police Integrity Commission" website.

 

[McLovin]

Not institutionalised, but definitely not as simple as the dismissive "it's just a few bad apples" would like you to think either.

Take a look at the Mark Standen case. Or the 1995 Royal Commission into NSW Police Force. Spend an hour on the "Police Integrity Commission" website.

I agree. To be fair, the AFP seems to be the *cleanest* of all the agencies.

 

[DB008]

Marijuana Push in D.C. Spurs Congress to Weigh Legalizing

Growing support for legal pot and the billions in tax revenue and prison savings the change may bring has convinced some that Congress will ease laws.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-01/marijuana-push-in-d-c-spurs-congress-to-weigh-legalizing.html

 

[DB008]

Jose Mujica: 'I earn more than I need'

The man described as the world's 'poorest president' discusses Uruguay's move to legalise marijuana.

President Jose Mujica, the world's 'poorest' president, has surprised the world by making Uruguay the first country to entirely legalise marijuana.

A law already passed in the lower house of Congress and expected to pass in the Senate later this year would make Uruguay the first country in the world to license and enforce rules for the production, distribution and sale of marijuana for adult consumers.

Uruguay is hoping to act as a potential test case for an idea slowly gaining steam across Latin America - that the legalisation and regulation of some drugs could combat the cartel violence devastating much of the region.

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/talktojazeera/2013/10/jose-mujica-i-earn-more-than-i-need-2013102294729420734.html

 

[DB008]

Uruguay’s neighbor Argentina now considering marijuana legalization

LIMA, Peru ”” Argentina has given the first sign that Uruguay’s groundbreaking cannabis reform just may have started a domino effect across Latin America.

Following the momentous vote by its smaller neighbor’s senate this month ”” making it the first nation in the world to completely legalize the soft drug ”” Argentina’s anti-drug czar Juan Carlos Molina has called for a public discussion in his country about emulating the measure.

“Argentina deserves a good debate about this,” Molina told local radio. “We have the capacity to do it. We should not underestimate ourselves.”

Crucially, Molina, a Catholic priest appointed earlier this month by President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner as head of her government’s counternarcotics agency, said his boss also wanted a new approach.

His comments are the clearest sign yet that Uruguay’s strategy ”” aimed at breaking the link between the lucrative marijuana trade and organized crime ”” has kicked off a trend in a region that long ago wearied of the bloodshed, expense and failed results of Washington’s “war on drugs.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/24/uruguays-neighbor-argentina-now-considering-marijuana-legalization/

 

[DB008]

10 things to know about nation's first recreational marijuana shops in Colorado

Denver (CNN) -- Colorado will begin allowing recreational marijuana sales on January 1 to anyone age 21 or over.
Residents will be able to buy marijuana like alcohol -- except the cannabis purchase is limited to an ounce, which is substantial enough to cost about $200 or more.
It's a big moment: Colorado will become the first state in the nation to open recreational pot stores and become the first place in the world where marijuana will be regulated from seed to sale. Pot, by the way, is the third most popular recreational drug in America, after alcohol and tobacco, according to the marijuana reform group NORML.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/28/us/10-things-colorado-recreational-marijuana/index.html

 

[CanOz]

10 things to know about nation's first recreational marijuana shops in Colorado



http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/28/us/10-things-colorado-recreational-marijuana/index.html

woo hoo...if I was into it (I'm not actually) I'd be off to visit my sister in :kifferenver for an extended stay!!!

 

[sydboy007]

10 things to know about nation's first recreational marijuana shops in Colorado



http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/28/us/10-things-colorado-recreational-marijuana/index.html

Makes sense. Less money wasted on criminalising it, more money raised in taxes.

 

[prawn_86]

Makes sense. Less money wasted on criminalising it, more money raised in taxes.

In theory the feds can still raid any of these shops/growers. Obama has said they wont bother, but a change in administration could change the current 'look the other way' policy

 

[CanOz]

In theory the feds can still raid any of these shops/growers. Obama has said they wont bother, but a change in administration could change the current 'look the other way' policy

Well that would raise the whole "states law" stuff again....touchy subject. It is kind of funny though, imagine those DEA guys in Colorado:cowboy:....are they happy they don't need to chase around potheads now or frustrated they're legal now?? lol....

 

[DB008]

woo hoo...if I was into it (I'm not actually) I'd be off to visit my sister in :kifferenver for an extended stay!!!

+1
I don't smoke pot, but I am in full support of giving people the choice to do so, if they want to.

http://www.colorado.gov/marijuanainfodenver

 

[DB008]

LOL!

Straight off Reddit!

 

[DB008]

Marijuana shops enter second day of retail sales

DENVER - Pot shops did record sales compared to the "medical marijuana days" on Wednesday when recreational marijuana opened. Pot shop owners across Colorado believe they collectively made more than $1 million statewide.

Supporters, critics and other states are waiting to see what will happen in Colorado on day two and beyond. In Perth, Australia, headlines say "Move Over Amsterdam."

Long lines and blustery winter weather greeted Colorado marijuana shoppers testing the nation's first legal recreational pot shops Wednesday.

It was hard to tell from talking to the shoppers, however, that they had waited hours in snow and frigid wind.

The world was watching as Colorado unveiled the modern world's first fully legal marijuana industry - no doctor's note required (as in 18 states and Washington, D.C.) and no unregulated production of the drug (as in the Netherlands). Uruguay has fully legalized pot but hasn't yet set up its system.

http://www.9news.com/news/article/371498/339/Pot-sales-exceed-1-million-on-first-day

 

[DB008]

Peru calls for debate on the legalization of marijuana

In Peru the consumption of marijuana is legal and a citizen may carry up to 8 grams of the drug without being penalised. However, the production and sale of cannabis is still illegal under Peruvian law.

http://rt.com/news/peru-calls-marijuana-legalization-165/