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Argentina Federal Court Decriminalizes Cannabis (and Drug) Consumption

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Post by HeadBanger May 1st 2008, 3:23 am

This just in… A federal court in Argentina has decriminalized the personal consumption of drugs in that country. According to the court’s ruling, punishing drug users only “creates an avalanche of cases targeting consumers without climbing up in the ladder of [drug] trafficking.”

Last month at a UN meeting in Vienna, Argentina’s Minister of Justice, Aníbal Fernández, said that the policy of punishing drug consumers was a “total failure.”

http://blog.norml.org/2008/04/23/argentina-decriminalizes-cannabis-and-drug-consumption/
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Post by flexwave2003 May 3rd 2008, 1:20 am

This is very interesting news, and ofcourse a step in the right direction. Now if we can only get others to follow suite.
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