Friday, February 20, 2009
What! What!, What!
The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) issued its annual report today ant there were a couple of confusing points in it. The first one is:
"In spite of all these facts, the use of cannabis is often trivialised and, in some countries, controls over the cultivation, possession and use of cannabis are less strict than for other drugs," the INCB said.A reasonable stand for an anti drug agency, that is their bread and butter. And then there is this:
Indeed, many countries allowed the "recreational" use of cannabis, and public perceptions of the so-called "medical" uses of the drug and its recreational use "are overlapping and confusing," it said.
It also urged governments to "stimulate" the controlled use of opiate-based painkillers to help "alleviate unnecessary suffering of millions of patients."So marijuana is bad but access to morphine and codeine is a "human right". Just slap my ass and call me Sally.
"Although the access to controlled medicines, including morphine and codeine, is considered by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to be a human right, it is virtually non existent in over 150 countries," the report said.
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