Colombia Supreme Court decriminalizes drugs for personal use

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Colombia's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that carrying small doses of drugs is not a punishable offense, torpedoing years of effort by the administration of former President Alvaro Uribe to criminalize the personal possession and consumption of drugs.

According to the court, penalizing the personal use of drugs violates the "free development of personality."

The court found that Legislative Act No.2, 2009, which banned the personal use of drugs, "implies the nullification of fundamental rights, and it represses and sanctions with the severest punishments (imprisonment) the personal decision to abandon one's personal health, a choice that corresponds to their own decision and does not infringe on the rights of other members of society."

more: http://colombiareports.com/colombia...rt-decriminalizes-drugs-for-personal-use.html
 
This is the photo they publish with this story:

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235360287471352662 said:
The court found that Legislative Act No.2, 2009, which banned the personal use of drugs, "implies the nullification of fundamental rights, and it represses and sanctions with the severest punishments (imprisonment) the personal decision to abandon one's personal health, a choice that corresponds to their own decision and does not infringe on the rights of other members of society."
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Wow.
They mostly got it right, in a big way. I am amazed, and happy.
But they missed something essential: the choice to use "drugs" does not necessarily mean "abandoning one's personal health".
I used mushrooms and cactus for years with the intention of recovering my (mental) health, processing grief and overcoming the effects of trauma and abuse.
I succeeded, mostly, in good part thanks to those "drugs".
I have also gained many benefits from MDMA and LSD.
Some of these benefits were psychological, and others were physical - gaining willpower and heart-strength, allowing me to make myself exercise, for example.

So, to decide that drug use = abandonment of health
is short-sighted.
 
Yeah, but think of how a Colombiano perceives the situation... drugs are directly responsible for extreme violence, poverty, corruption, and environmental destruction in that country. I am not surprised they included that phrasing.
 
I like that quote "free development of personality." I think it says something that they are willing to admit that. To say that drugs are damaging to one's health is only true if its drug ABuse, not drug use. There is quite a difference, imo, than say using psychedelics to ponder and deeply think about problems in ones lives vs. say binge drinking for example.
 
The more countries that do this, the more data there will be to prove that the "War on Drugs" is ineffective and that just because drugs become legal, it doesn't mean that there will be a significant increase in the amount of people who use drugs.
 
practically no English source is reporting this story, even though it's awesome.

This is essentially a
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Yeah, this NY times article is about all I can find. Some quotes:

"Symbolically, this is a very important and even devastating blow to both the Governments of Colombia and the United States," a senior Clinton Administration official said in an interview yesterday. It is the opposite, he said, of what both Governments have been trying to do.

Officials in Washington were heartened by the reaction of President Cesar Gaviria, who said the decision by Colombia's Constitutional Court was "absurd" and said that a referendum and a revision of the Constitution should be considered.

Thomas A. Constantine, the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration in Washington, said the decision was "a step backwards" and Lee P. Brown, President Clinton's senior aid on drug policy, said he was "extremely disappointed."
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Haha, suck it :p

Edit: Just realised it's from 1994! {goes to learn who the president of colombia is :o} Oh well, I bet they're saying the same shit now.
 
i think that all the lies about drugs is come of the problem they lie about weed and then ppl try it and think what else are they lieing about...and also some ppl are just hard wired to rebel, so havin this forbidden fruit makes it more appealing in a way to some...most people are brainwashed by what they hear and have heard and they have closed their minds so it can be hard to get them to understand plus our goverement is addicted to the money that they get from the war on drugs
 
paper planes said:
i think that all the lies about drugs is come of the problem they lie about weed and then ppl try it and think what else are they lieing about...and also some ppl are just hard wired to rebel, so havin this forbidden fruit makes it more appealing in a way to some...most people are brainwashed by what they hear and have heard and they have closed their minds so it can be hard to get them to understand plus our goverement is addicted to the money that they get from the war on drugs
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it's all economic. the drug war is very effective at keeping less wealthy individuals tied to a black market system (which allows all of them to be easy police targets), and it's very effective at segregating races as much as possible in our postmodern "postracist"* society. it adds psychological authority to the powers that be (over one's own brain processes even, and one's entire life e.g. threat of prison) and financial authority/rape to the police and local governments (seized assets). and of course physical and moral authority.

*we're "moneyist" now.
 
Most of the "deeply addicted" people I know get a lot of their drugs from their doctor....

Opiates anyway....

Hydrocodone
Morphine
Oxycodone
Hydromorphone (my personal favorite)
Fentanyl
Oxymorphone
Methadone

All of those are much more common than heroin around here anyhow...

Heroin is pretty good but expensive... and I would rather have several of the substances listed over heroin back when I was an addict...
 
I recently moved out to a small town about 3 hours where I raised and lived there until I got busted. I'll post an article but to give people an idea of it, a drunk police officer flipped a BMW on the highway. The BMW was seized from someone. While it doesn't mention this in the article, it talks about the police department is facing prosecution from misuse of seized vehicles. I heard the bit about the car flipping from someone who lives in the town. I just need to look at the page he printed out to get the link. Its really fucking sad esp. considering I got my 2010 Civic seized recently.
 
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