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Why doesn't Uruguay face penalties from the United Nations for legalizing marijuana?
Uruguay is a signatory to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs which requires that all signatories criminalize the manufacturing and possession of drugs, including marijuana. However Uruguay has taken steps to legalize the drug back in 2012 and…
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Now that marijuana is legal in several countries, do any states plan to legalize further drugs?
While marijuana is still illegal in the US due to federal law, several US states and Uruguay have passed laws unbanning it. Canada would also legalize it soon and I assume most of the world would make it legal within a decade.
I'm wondering if…
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Are there any possible arguments in favor of sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine?
Before the passage of the Fair Sentencing Act in the United States in 2010, possession of 5 grams of crack cocaine, or 500 grams of powder cocaine, constituted a felony offense—a 100-to-1 disparity. After the passage of the act, possession of 28…
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Legalization of drugs
Suppose someday it is enacted a law saying something like "The use of chemical substances, natural or artificial, when used for recreational purposes, it is authorized" or "will not be criminally persecuted". Can such a law exist without the another…
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What would explain prohibition of narcotics in most world?
I've been trying to analyze here.
A most common theory is that polices make more money enforcing anti narcotics laws than enforcing other laws. They can demand $100k as bribe every time they caught somebody.
But that's in corrupt states like…
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Have there been any referendums on legalizing the recreational sale of drugs other than marijuana?
Oregon Measure 110 was recently voted in, decriminalizing the possession of any controlled substances:
A "yes" vote supported making personal non-commercial possession of a
controlled substance no more than a Class E violation (max fine of
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Why are many safe narcotics illegal?
Ganja, LSD, Salvia, MDMA.
Those are not dangerous at all.
What about coffee? Why coffee is legal and MDMA isn't?
I suspected that it has a lot to do with the market value of those substance. The more enjoyable the substance the more people are…
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Why very few countries/states try taxing and legalizing safe soft drugs?
Perhaps a better title of this question would be, why competition among states and different cultural preferences among people in many states do not make more states try legalizing safe soft drugs?
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