• 🇳🇿 🇲🇲 🇯🇵 🇨🇳 🇦🇺 🇦🇶 🇮🇳
    Australian & Asian
    Drug Discussion

    Welcome Guest!
    Posting Rules Bluelight Rules
  • AADD Moderators: Tronica

Help end the war on drugs (AVAAZ Petition)

Avaaz is not a law enforcement data collecting scam. Maybe people should actually visit the site before passing judgement. While you're there, have a look at their achievements section. It's funny how closed-minded drug users can actually be when it suits them. That said, this is one of Avaaz's more ambitious petitions, but then again, Avaaz managed to help get discussions the gay death penalty law blocked.
 
I did Divine but when I posted I couldn't find a thread on the petition so thought I'd put it in the Oz DD, I started a thread but looks like a mod has merged it with another thread probably initially posted elsewhere??
 
^ ooops I'm in the same boat as psilo, merged it without noticing the email from entheogenesis had already been posted. Sorry guys, duplicate post removed, thanks for making it in the first place though djep. Continue on everyone :)
 
It' upto 375,000 people signed.

What are they actually gonna do once they have 500,000 signed. I'd like to know a bit more about how they plan to use it to help. Any info would be appreciated.
 
This is getting quite close to it's target now, well worth signing to help push it over the line if you haven't already.
 
I jumped on board and signed it also :)


even if it doesn't change anything... at least it'll get some influential people thinking about it... it might have some success somewhere around this world... and even that would be a step in the right direction.

get on board folks and sign, 532,000+ have already signed!
 
580,000 now
I'm Going away for the weekend, can't wait to see how this has all played out when I get back.

Fingers crossed =)
 
The war on drugs has cost billions in tax money, funneled trillions of dollars into organized crime, cost countless lives, and achieved zero results.

Yet, for decades, any debate around ending the war on drugs has been quashed. In official circles, it's "taboo" to talk the about regulation or decriminalisation -- some even lose their jobs for doing so.

Then a group of former presidents formed The Global Commission on Drugs to boldly speak out for reform. They faced one problem -- politicians claimed they couldn't act because there was no public support for change! So Avaaz joined the fight.

We launched the campaign, and in one week, our community proved the politicians wrong, with over 600,000 Avaazers calling for an end to the war on drugs. The ex-presidents and billionaire Richard Branson called a press conference, presented their expert report proposing reform, received the Avaaz petition -- and the response was incredible! Over 2000 media articles were written (AP, IPS, The Guardian), virtually all of them positive!! The taboo was broken...

In a strategy meeting that afternoon, the ex-presidents repeatedly looked to our community to help take the campaign forward, stressing that only grass roots pressure can create the political will for action.

The next day, the Global Commission and Avaaz met with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. In 30 minutes of discussion, the Avaaz petition was presented and repeatedly cited as evidence of public demand for an end to the war. Ban took an important step and decided to create a task force to look at new solutions to the problem of drugs! A real and desperately needed debate has finally begun ...
Click to expand...
 
^ That is good to hear. Everyone who signed the petition should be glad that is seems it has achieved something, no matter how small it might be. :)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top