MarijuanaNews.com : London Times Reports On UN Narks Complaints About Cannabis Sales On the Internet. International Push For Censoring The Net.

Posted February 24, 2000
See

href=”http://marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=116″>UN Nark Prohibitionist Propaganda
Organization Issues Annual Report; Uses Potent Pot Line To Justify More Marijuana
Prohibition

February 24, 2000
From The London Times
letters@the-times.co.uk
http://www.the-times.co.uk/
By Richard Beeston, Diplomatic Editor
(MarijuanaNews note: To be somewhat undiplomatic about it, simply
quoting UN narks is not journalism, although it usually passes for such at most
newspapers.)
CANNABIS DEALERS TRADE ON INTERNET
DRUG-DEALERS who produce homegrown cannabis and trade over the
Internet have emerged alongside Colombian drug barons and Afghan warlords as players in
the international drugs market.
(MarijuanaNews note: What a bizarre comparison! Colombian
drug barons and Afghan warlords, and someone selling weed on the Net! Marijuana
prohibition is about total control.)
According to the annual report of the International Narcotics Control Board, the United
Nations drugs watchdog, a new and dangerous trend of very potent homegrown cannabis is
being pushed in Western Europe and finding its way into schools.
(MarijuanaNews note: It is always “finding its way into
schools,” except in Holland.)
See

href=”http://marijuananews.com/marijuananews/cowan/final_report_of_dutch_national_d.htm”>Final
Report Of Dutch National Drug Use Survey Will Require New Lies From The Drug Czar:
Their Lifetime Cannabis Use Half of DEAland’s; Two-Thirds That of UK
and
Legalize
Marijuana and Improve High-School Academic Performance? Holland Ranks First –
The US Very Low

The report called on Britain and The Netherlands to take
action against the spread of websites “offering to sell and deliver quickly, to
almost any destination in the world, potent varieties of cannabis”. It said that
increasing tolerance towards cannabis was misplaced because the homegrown drug was often
far stronger than the imported variety.

In Britain, 25 per cent of 13-year-olds surveyed admitted that they had taken illegal
substances, usually cannabis. Similarly in France, one third of secondary school pupils
had experimented with the drug, as well as 69 per cent of juveniles attending
“techno” parties in Germany.

The report will make depressing reading for governments all over the world trying to fight
the spread of hard drugs such as heroin and cocaine. Hamid Ghodse,
a member of the board, said that the global drugs market had an estimated annual turnover
of at least UKP250 billion and singled out Afghanistan as a country whose economy was
almost entirely dependent on profits from drugs.
See
New
York Times Does Report That “U.N. Drug Board Urges Research on Marijuana as
Medicine”
But Serves It With A Large Dose Of Prohibitionist Propaganda
and

color=”#0000ff”>International Narcotics Control Board Criticizes Media, Urges More
Responsible Reporting On Efforts To “Legalize Drugs”

Most countries are bound by international treaty to combat the drugs trade, but
75 per cent of heroin is produced in areas of Afghanistan controlled by Taleban, the
militant Islamic movement.

Persuading Taleban to stop its production, estimated at a record 4,600 tons last year, is
almost impossible since the movement is recognised only by three foreign governments and
depends heavily on the sale of heroin to finance its civil war against the country’s
former Government.

“The commitment of the Taleban in Afghanistan to ban opium poppy cultivation and
heroin manufacture remains questionable,” the report said.

The battle against cocaine is having little more success. Although the International
Narcotics Control Board reported successes in halting illegal coca crops in Bolivia and
Peru, output has increased in Colombia, the world’s largest cocaine producer. According to
the latest statistics, cultivation of coca in Colombia has risen by up to 30 per cent,
with much of the production in rebel areas outside government control.

The US Congress is considering a UKP1 billion package to accelerate its coca crop-spraying
operation as well as supplying 30 more helicopter gunships, used to protect crop-spraying
planes from ground fire.

Colombia’s dominance as a drugs centre has had a destabilising effect on the region, where
countries are being used to launder money or as conduits for export markets in North
America and Europe.

“Haiti has emerged as the main transit point for smuggling cocaine from Colombia
through the Caribbean corridor and into the United States,” the report said.