The UN suggests that member countries be urged to legalize the use of Cannabis

Samuel S Saraiva
Samuel S Saraiva
Washington Metro Area, DC, United StatesCreated February 6, 2014

The UN suggests that member countries be urged to legalize the use of Cannabis

Washington Metro Area, DC, United States
Created February 6, 2014

The Issue

We, the citizens of the world, are aware that the sacred principle of human essence, called free will, is being violated by repressive laws whose advocates and systems touted as pretentiously democratic, do not understand that life is dynamic and organic, nothing is static and everything is in the continuous process of evolution or transformation, we require that the secretary general urge member countries to discuss the decriminalization of therapeutic and recreational use of marijuana. Also, regulate its industrialization.

We cannot accept imposition of any kind: Not those wishing to impose secular habits or those who wish to impose a modus vivendis. There is no more space for backward impositions or coercion on behalf of a segment or other populations of the earth. RESPECT AND TOLERANCE ARE THE ESSENTIAL DIFFERENCES AND THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE TO INTELLIGENCE AND HUMAN REASON.

The imposition of socio-cultural or religious standards is an arbitrary act, and illegitimate for one segment, albeit the majority, on the rights of minorities in deciding whether to follow a messiah or prophet, or Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius or simply a Bob Marley or anyone they wish.

No one should be criminalized for rationally, using a vegetable (hallucinogenic or not) be it smoked, or food consumption in a private place and adhering to safety laws regarding driving, operating instruments, or machinery when the state of mind is in optional relaxation.

We cannot allow for alcohol and tobacco, responsible for thousands of deaths with huge economic and social losses, to be permitted while the rational use of marijuana is prohibited as something more evil than legalized drugs available on the market today. It is not uncommon for drunken leaders to govern their countries legitimized by the majority vote of their fellow citizens. Nevertheless, a brief retrospective on the history of drugs allows us to see that they were always used by elites while prohibited for consumption by that portion that they represent the most sensitive and vulnerable part of the population:  workers, youth, or seniors who spend their lives as criminals who cannot spark a natural cigarette.

Meanwhile the elites squander on alcohol and tobacco, excessively, an orgy of endless folly. This false moral reasoning must be corrected in the socio-cultural mindset of the planet and the UN should lead this educational process, eliminating coercive mentalities that insist on counter reality with ineffective laws that exist but are not observed because they are contrary to the customs and practices already embedded in generations who feel entitled to use marijuana for recreational and therapeutic purposes.

We were not scandalized when we heard of a president of a developed country that "smoked marijuana but did not inhale,” or simply that smoked when he was young. The U.S. state of Colorado offers an example that it is possible and necessary to respect all segments of society since it complied with common sense and applicable safety laws. In the same sense the Netherlands in the Old Continent and recently Uruguay in Latin America, are all on the forefront of current thinking.

We suggest that the controlled consumption of marijuana be guaranteed by law in all member countries, their governments thereby generating a million dollar tax fund, earmarking part of them internally for health, education, safety and recreation and other money destined for the UN to carry out urgent humanitarian programs to combat hunger and malnutrition,  education and other priorities.

We cannot allow for vital resources to not be collected due to a lack of maturity and political social realism that continue feeding the multi-million dollar illegal drug trade, largely responsible for the violence that has ruthlessly sacrificed and plagued several countries and their populations, imposing terror on the unquenchable thirst for money and power that comes from the illegal market.

The evil is not in moderate consumption, but in the commercial ambition of those living in this parallel reality of power in the United States, fueled by irresponsibility and incompetence by the legislators who insist on their hypocrisy of banning it because they do not have the audacity to admit the nonsense of religious leaders and their indoctrinated world. Without exception, ALL need to be respected for their beliefs, habits or choices and also respect the rights of others.

Worth the primacy of reality over fiction, pragmatism of the utopia of reason over unreason. The politics of the drug war, loud and inefficient, and contrary to the laws of market supply and demand, is too costly to society and can not promote the decline in the consumption of cannabis. Evidenced that repression, as is done, instead of solving the problem, exacerbates it. Aside from the costs of police law enforcement, the judicial machinery is too heavy on our tax payers.

The educational aspect of the sentencing citizens to prison or rehabilitation programs is simply another utopia idea that society has chosen to believe. In actuality, citizens often times enter the prison system, but come out with an unchanged mindset as a result of society punishing them for using a beneficial and useful product. Therefore, choose the lesser evil, and encourage the legalization.

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Samuel S SaraivaPetition StarterHe is US citizen and a private individual who feels passionately about fighting world hunger and Human Rights. He also feels very strongly about being responsible of the waste and carbon foot print we leave on the Earth. Samuel S Saraiva is a former member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists-NAHJ and National Press Club of Washington DC.
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The Issue

We, the citizens of the world, are aware that the sacred principle of human essence, called free will, is being violated by repressive laws whose advocates and systems touted as pretentiously democratic, do not understand that life is dynamic and organic, nothing is static and everything is in the continuous process of evolution or transformation, we require that the secretary general urge member countries to discuss the decriminalization of therapeutic and recreational use of marijuana. Also, regulate its industrialization.

We cannot accept imposition of any kind: Not those wishing to impose secular habits or those who wish to impose a modus vivendis. There is no more space for backward impositions or coercion on behalf of a segment or other populations of the earth. RESPECT AND TOLERANCE ARE THE ESSENTIAL DIFFERENCES AND THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE TO INTELLIGENCE AND HUMAN REASON.

The imposition of socio-cultural or religious standards is an arbitrary act, and illegitimate for one segment, albeit the majority, on the rights of minorities in deciding whether to follow a messiah or prophet, or Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius or simply a Bob Marley or anyone they wish.

No one should be criminalized for rationally, using a vegetable (hallucinogenic or not) be it smoked, or food consumption in a private place and adhering to safety laws regarding driving, operating instruments, or machinery when the state of mind is in optional relaxation.

We cannot allow for alcohol and tobacco, responsible for thousands of deaths with huge economic and social losses, to be permitted while the rational use of marijuana is prohibited as something more evil than legalized drugs available on the market today. It is not uncommon for drunken leaders to govern their countries legitimized by the majority vote of their fellow citizens. Nevertheless, a brief retrospective on the history of drugs allows us to see that they were always used by elites while prohibited for consumption by that portion that they represent the most sensitive and vulnerable part of the population:  workers, youth, or seniors who spend their lives as criminals who cannot spark a natural cigarette.

Meanwhile the elites squander on alcohol and tobacco, excessively, an orgy of endless folly. This false moral reasoning must be corrected in the socio-cultural mindset of the planet and the UN should lead this educational process, eliminating coercive mentalities that insist on counter reality with ineffective laws that exist but are not observed because they are contrary to the customs and practices already embedded in generations who feel entitled to use marijuana for recreational and therapeutic purposes.

We were not scandalized when we heard of a president of a developed country that "smoked marijuana but did not inhale,” or simply that smoked when he was young. The U.S. state of Colorado offers an example that it is possible and necessary to respect all segments of society since it complied with common sense and applicable safety laws. In the same sense the Netherlands in the Old Continent and recently Uruguay in Latin America, are all on the forefront of current thinking.

We suggest that the controlled consumption of marijuana be guaranteed by law in all member countries, their governments thereby generating a million dollar tax fund, earmarking part of them internally for health, education, safety and recreation and other money destined for the UN to carry out urgent humanitarian programs to combat hunger and malnutrition,  education and other priorities.

We cannot allow for vital resources to not be collected due to a lack of maturity and political social realism that continue feeding the multi-million dollar illegal drug trade, largely responsible for the violence that has ruthlessly sacrificed and plagued several countries and their populations, imposing terror on the unquenchable thirst for money and power that comes from the illegal market.

The evil is not in moderate consumption, but in the commercial ambition of those living in this parallel reality of power in the United States, fueled by irresponsibility and incompetence by the legislators who insist on their hypocrisy of banning it because they do not have the audacity to admit the nonsense of religious leaders and their indoctrinated world. Without exception, ALL need to be respected for their beliefs, habits or choices and also respect the rights of others.

Worth the primacy of reality over fiction, pragmatism of the utopia of reason over unreason. The politics of the drug war, loud and inefficient, and contrary to the laws of market supply and demand, is too costly to society and can not promote the decline in the consumption of cannabis. Evidenced that repression, as is done, instead of solving the problem, exacerbates it. Aside from the costs of police law enforcement, the judicial machinery is too heavy on our tax payers.

The educational aspect of the sentencing citizens to prison or rehabilitation programs is simply another utopia idea that society has chosen to believe. In actuality, citizens often times enter the prison system, but come out with an unchanged mindset as a result of society punishing them for using a beneficial and useful product. Therefore, choose the lesser evil, and encourage the legalization.

avatar of the starter
Samuel S SaraivaPetition StarterHe is US citizen and a private individual who feels passionately about fighting world hunger and Human Rights. He also feels very strongly about being responsible of the waste and carbon foot print we leave on the Earth. Samuel S Saraiva is a former member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists-NAHJ and National Press Club of Washington DC.

The Decision Makers

Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon
Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon
United Nation

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