HI, greetings readers. Once in a while I read one or two articles from a newspaper and get overwhelmed by the sense of inbalance. A lack of fairness, comprehensive thinking and alternative views on whatever issue they choose to make NEWS.
Here we have an example of 'soundbites' and 'quotes' from the INCB (International Narcotics Control Board) 2011 report, that from the off, seems flawed to me, in its inability to entertain the possibility of legalization as a strategy for Global harm reduction, let alone the medical and industrial uses of Cannabis and hemp in particular, the masses of new jobs, new cultural awareness etc.
So I'll add my comments to the article in
BOLD CAPITALS. Please excuse my ranting tone, it's just stooping the level of sillyness I see in these arguments and statements made, so funny eh.
--Steven Pratt.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9110374/UN-drug-gangs-controlling-parts-of-British-cities.html
UN: drug gangs controlling parts of British cities
Parts of British cities are becoming no-go areas where drugs gangs are
effectively in control, a United Nations drugs chief said today.
(DRUGS GANGS? DOES SUPERDRUG AND BOOTS QUALIFY AS 'DRUGS GANGS?' PLEASE, DEFINE YOUR TERMS!)
Professor Hamid Ghodse, president of the UN's International Narcotics Control
Board (INCB), said there was ''a vicious cycle of social exclusion and drugs
problems and fractured communities'' in cities such as Birmingham, Liverpool
and Manchester.
(DRUGS PROBLEMS AND FRACTURED COMMUNITIES, VICIOUS CYCLES... YES, DUE TO PROHIBITION, AND THE WAR ON DRUGS, AND MONEY SPENT ON FOREIGN WARS AND SWINDLED BY LOCAL AND NATIONAL POLITICIANS, BANKERS AND CORPORATIONS, IMHO)
The development of ''no-go areas'' was being fuelled by threats such as social
inequality, migration and celebrities normalising drug abuse, he warned.
(WHAT? CELEBRITIES NORMALIZING DRUG ABUSE! WELL, YOUR A CELEBRITY NOW MR GHODSE, BUSY DE-NORMALIZING DRUG-ABUSE NO DOUBT. WHAT DO YOU MEAN? WHAT DRUGS, WHAT DO YOU VIEW AS ABUSE? EH?
MIGRATION? MIGRATION OF SOULS?
OH, I GET IT, YOU MEAN NON-WHITE, LOWER MIDDLE CLASS JOBLESS 'CELEBRITIES'.
Helping marginalised communities with drugs problems ''must be a priority'',
he said.
''We are looking at social cohesion, the social disintegration and illegal
drugs.
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''In many societies around the world, whether developed or developing, there
are communities within the societies which develop which become no-go areas.
''Drug traffickers, organised crime, drug users, they take over. They will get
the sort of governance of those areas.
''Examples are in Brazil, Mexico, in the United States, in the UK, Birmingham,
Liverpool, Manchester, and therefore it is no good to have only law
enforcement, which always shows it does not succeed.''
(OK, I AGREE, AND PRESENT FULL LEGALIZATION OF ALL DRUGS AS THE SOLUTION, WAKE UP YOU MORON!)
Prof Ghodse called for such communities to be offered drug abuse prevention
programmes, treatment and rehabilitation services, and the same levels of
educational, employment and recreational opportunities as in the wider
society.
(THATS A VERY WIDE RANGE OF OLD IDEAS, PEPPERED WITH IDEALISTIC SWEET TALK ABOUT EQUALITY AND WORK. MY THOUGHTS DRIFT TO BANKING ABUSE PREVENTION PROGRAMMES, PONZI SCHEME TREATMENT AND FINANCIAL BAIL-OUT REHABILITATION SERVICES. IT MIGHT LOOK GRIM UP NORTH BUDDY, BUT MOST THE REAL PSYCHOPATHS AND SOCIAL PARIAHS ARE AROUND LONDON, WHERE ALL THE GLOBAL CORPORATE ACTION TAKES PLACE BETWEEN THE HUGE PHARMA BORGS, THE BANKS AND THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, SPREADING CARNIEGE AND DESTRUCTION AND MAYHEM ACROSS THE UK AND THE WORLD. AND YET, SOME WEED SMOKING GANGSTERS WHO REALLY JUST LOVE TO PLAY X-BOX AND SURF THE NET IN VARIOUS ALTERED STATES POSE SUCH A MASSIVE THREAT TO SOCIETY?)
''Youth of these communities must have similar chances to those in the wide
society and have a right to be protected from drug abuse and drug
dependence,'' he said.
(OH YEAH, I FORGOT, THE TAX PAYERS PAY FOR THIS KIND OF PROTECTION AND TREATMENT ALREADY, THE POLICE ENFORCE YOUR PROHIBITION IN THE UK WITHOUT MERCY. LIKE ANY OTHER CRIME. AND NOW WITH THE ADDED EXCUSE OF PROVIDING EQUAL CHANCES IN THE WIDER COMMUNITY, BY PROTECTING FROM DRUG DEPENDENCE. BULLSHIT! WAKE UP. I SAY.)
''It is crucial that the needs of communities experiencing social
disintegration are urgently tackled before the tipping point is reached,
beyond which effective action becomes impossible.
''The consequences of failure are too high for society and should be avoided
at all cost.''
The INCB's annual report for 2011 found persistent social inequality,
migration, emerging cultures of excess and a shift in traditional values
were some of the key threats to social cohesion.
(THE TIPPING POINT EH? WHAT TIPPING POINT, WHAT POINT, WHAT PIVOT? AND FROM WHICH AFTER EFFECTIVE ACTION BECOMES IMPOSSIBLE? WHAT? WHEN IS THAT? LEGALIZATION AND DECRIMINALIZATION COULD DO THAT, ACTUALLY, SEE PORTUGAL AND THE NETHERLANDS ON THIS ISSUE. PLEASE. LOOK AND READ FREDERICK POLLACK. THANKS.)
As the gap between rich and poor widens, and ''faced with a future with
limited opportunities, individuals within these communities may increasingly
become disengaged from the wider society and become involved in a range of
personally and socially harmful behaviours, including drug abuse and drug
dealing,'' it said.
(LIKE A BAD TRIP HE JUST GOES AROUND AND AROUND SAYING NOTHING MUCH BUT PARANOID STERETYPICAL SOUNDBITES. BULLSHIT. MOST CREATIVE PEOPLE I KNOW SMOKE POT AND HAVE TRIPPED BALLS AT LEAST A FEW TIMES IN A RESPECTFUL AND DILIGENT WAY. YOU, MR GHODSE HAVE OBVIOUSLY NEVER TRIED ANY OF THE DRUGS YOU SO HEARTILY EXPONGE. WAKE UP YOU DICK-HEAD AND PULL THAT INCB FINGER OUT YOUR ASS-HOLE. WHAT ABUSE? HOW MUCH, HOW OFTEN? AND WHAT DEALING? HOW MUCH, HOW OFTEN, WHAT ABOUT THE UK AND US GOV. DRUG DEALING? HAVE YOU EVER ADDRESSED THAT, AND THE DOUBLE STANDARDS, AND THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECT THIS CAN HAVE ON SOME WHO MAY FIGURE YOUR A FRONT FOR THE COPS AND ROBBERS, DUE TO YOUR DARK PARANOID VISIONS AND DIATRIBE.)
The report added: ''While migration offers many positive benefits to the
migrant and to society at large, it can create a sense of dislocation from
the surrounding community and a sense of vulnerability on the part of those
who are displaced.
''Where migrating social groups have travelled from areas associated with
illicit drug production and drug abuse, there is a greater likelihood of
individuals engaging in forms of drug misuse as a way of coping with such a
sense of dislocation.''
(SIMPLY, BOLLOCKS MR GHODSE. BOLLOCKS. YOUR WORDS ARE EMPTY AND MEANINGLESS, AND THE REPORTING HERE ALSO STINKS FOR IT'S CHOICE OF QUOTES AND LACK OF BALANCED ARGUMENT.)
Celebrities' use of illicit drugs may also ''contribute to a growing
normalisation of certain forms of drug misuse within the wider society and
in turn can lead to the undermining of social cohesion''.
But the INCB warned none of the factors ''should be seen as leading
individuals inevitably into a lifestyle of drug abuse and criminality''.
''Whatever the social processes and social pressures at hand, human beings
still have the capacity to exercise some element of choice in what they do
and what they refrain from doing,'' it said.
(EH, SOME ELEMENT OF CHOICE? WELL NOT IF THAT INVOLVES A LITTLE MEDICAL MARIJUANA, OR A TRIPPY WHIPPY, OR SOME REICHEAN THEARAPY OR NLP COURSES IN MOST PLACES. WHAT SANCTAMONIOUS BULLSHIT THE INCB SPOUTS. AS I SAID, BUNCH OF MORONS.
A Home Office spokesman said: ''The Ending Gang and Youth Violence report
published by the Government in 2011 sets out a comprehensive strategy for
supporting local areas to reduce the effects of gang violence.
''We want to stop young people from joining gangs in the first place through
intervention and support to children and families at risk of gang violence.
''This will be matched with tough and intensive enforcement action to bring
perpetrators to justice.''
(NICE ENDING! BOOM, BE WARNED, SO TO SPEAK. WELL I DISAGREE TOTALLY WITH THE INBALANCED VIEWS OF THIS ARTICLE, THE BAD PICTURE OF THE SUSPECTED DRUG DEALER, THE BAD QUOTES FROM MR GHODSE JUST REPEATING THE SAME SHIT. NO STATISTICS, NO HYPERLINKS, JUST ONE RAY OF HOPE, ONE.....
THE VOTING DEVICE WHICH INCLUDES THE PROPOSAL TO LEGALIZE AS A STRATEGY TO DEFEAT ORGANIZED CRIME AND CRIMINAL GANG DEALINGS. AS OF TODAY IT HAS THE MOST VOTES. I REST MY CASE. HEY, MAYBE FOLLOW UP THIS ARTICLE WITH A PRO-LEGALIZATION AND/OR DECRIMINALIZATION PIECE, FEATURING A SMART AND INTELLIGENT SCIENTIST REFUTING EVERY POINT MR GHODSE, THE HOME OFFICE AND THE INCB MAKE.
YOURS SINCERELY,
--STEVE FLY AGARIC 23.
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