Comments on: David Nutt defends science from moral positioning on drugs policy http://stash.norml.org/david-nutt-defends-science-from-moral-positioning-on-drugs-policy The Growing Truth About Cannabis Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:08:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: McD http://stash.norml.org/david-nutt-defends-science-from-moral-positioning-on-drugs-policy/comment-page-1#comment-45753 McD Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:31:39 +0000 http://stash.norml.org/?p=13469#comment-45753 They're closer in the UK. Who's going to get there first? Who's going to be the first biggie to set the dominoes tumbling? Holland's had their weight behind the push for more than three decades with fantastic results, Portugal leant into it a few years ago, also showing excellent results. Who's going to be the big one with enough weight for the fall to start it off? America? Britain? Germany? Switzerland has already threatened a couple of times, but that probably wouldn't be heavy enough to make critical mass... Although the balances change so quickly. It could even be Russia, China or India. All they need to do (see An Overview of Cannabis Policy: 'Moving Beyond Stalemate' (The Report of the Beckley Foundation Global Cannabis Commission – September 2008), page 154 (All of the pages around there are very interesting and provide perhaps the most well-balanced and realistic overview of the complications involved in re-legalising cannabis.): Denunciation of a treaty is on the one hand a legal action that removes a state’s obligation to comply with the provisions of a treaty. On the other hand, it is also a public statement. As Helfer (2005:1588) notes, “withdrawing from an agreement (or threatening to withdraw) can give a denouncing state additional voice, either by increasing its leverage to reshape the treaty,… or by establishing a rival legal norm or institution together with other like-minded states”. So, who's going to be the one to actually do it - to blow a big rasberry at the UN(US/UK)axis and denounce the treaty, reject it and accept it in modern form, as describe as a possibility in the Beckly report? It looks neck-and-neck between Britain and America to me at the moment. They’re closer in the UK. Who’s going to get there first? Who’s going to be the first biggie to set the dominoes tumbling? Holland’s had their weight behind the push for more than three decades with fantastic results, Portugal leant into it a few years ago, also showing excellent results. Who’s going to be the big one with enough weight for the fall to start it off? America? Britain? Germany? Switzerland has already threatened a couple of times, but that probably wouldn’t be heavy enough to make critical mass… Although the balances change so quickly. It could even be Russia, China or India. All they need to do (see An Overview of Cannabis Policy: ‘Moving Beyond Stalemate’ (The Report of the Beckley Foundation Global Cannabis Commission – September 2008), page 154 (All of the pages around there are very interesting and provide perhaps the most well-balanced and realistic overview of the complications involved in re-legalising cannabis.):
Denunciation of a treaty is on the one hand a legal action that removes a
state’s obligation to comply with the provisions of a treaty. On the other hand, it is
also a public statement. As Helfer (2005:1588) notes, “withdrawing from an
agreement (or threatening to withdraw) can give a denouncing state additional voice,
either by increasing its leverage to reshape the treaty,… or by establishing a rival
legal norm or institution together with other like-minded states”.

So, who’s going to be the one to actually do it – to blow a big rasberry at the UN(US/UK)axis and denounce the treaty, reject it and accept it in modern form, as describe as a possibility in the Beckly report? It looks neck-and-neck between Britain and America to me at the moment.

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