Interesting Links for 29-07-2012

[andrewducker]

• Nokia has made its last phone in Finland.
  (tags: nokia finland )
• It was worth watching Prometheus just to giggle through this piss-take.
  (tags: funny prometheus )
• Apple v. Samsung: 5 Surprising Reveals in Latest Court Documents
  (tags: phones samsung apple )
• Some progress on arms sales.
  (tags: weapons military uk )
• Lib Dems block further welfare cuts
  (tags: uk welfare libdem )
• Interpreting the Olympic Opening Ceremony
  (tags: uk funny olympics )
• Pot Legalization Is Coming (maybe. If we're lucky. And the US government can act sanely. So probably not.)
  (tags: viaJohnCoxon legalisation usa drugs )

Comments

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure pot legalization would violate multiple international treaties.

[andrewducker]

Yup. Doesn't mean they won't do it, just means it will cause a big fuss.

Medical Marijuana probably also violates those treaties...

[artkouros.livejournal.com]

I'm all for legalizing pot - more than I can say - but I don't see it happening because it requires the US government to back away from Single Convention Treaty on Narcotic Drugs it forced down the throats of the world's governments in 1961.

I'd settle for decriminalization at the state level. But I live in Texas, and even if every Baptist in the state smoked weed, they'd still vote to keep it illegal.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh HISHE. You never fail me.

As for the last, I'm sorry, you lost me at government making a sane decision (to say nothing of US government making a sane decision!).

[andrewducker]

Yeah, I agree. Let's see what Obama is like when he's not running for re-election...

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

For the most part I'm still pleased with Obama, he's gotten a hell of a lot done. Most of it isn't "the big issues" that immediately garner media attention but the man's been busy and accomplished. I suspect with marijuana it's largely out of his hands, however, due to international treaties.

That said, I seem to remember hearing recently that scientists have invented a strain of marijuana that serves the same medical purposes without producing a high. That could change some of the arguments.