huffingtonpost.com
December 11, 2013
Uruguay’s move to legalise the production and sale of marijuana breaks international law, the world drugs body said Wednesday, warning it would encourage addiction.
“Uruguay is breaking the international conventions on drug control with the cannabis legislation approved by its congress,” said the International Narcotics Control Board, a UN agency that oversees the implementation of international treaties on drugs.
INCB president Raymond Yans added he was “surprised” that Montevideo had “knowingly decided to break the universally agreed and internationally endorsed legal provisions of the treaty.”
He accused the country’s lawmakers of ignoring scientific evidence on the health risks of marijuana, and said claims the law would help reduce crime relied on “rather precarious and unsubstantiated assumptions.”
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