Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

November 23, 2012

Raymond Yans is the head of the UN?s International Narcotics Control Board, which was created through the world body?s 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. He is not an elected official, nor is he accountable to any electorate. He has no business dictating policy to anybody, let alone the citizens ofColoradoandWashington.

Voters in those states recently enacted ballot measures decriminalizing the recreational use of marijuana. This isn?t because they concluded that using that substance was a good idea, but rather because they?ve come to understand that government efforts to prohibit drug use are an even worse idea. From his perch at the UN, Yans looked down with disapproval on this development. He sent a message to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder demanding that the Obama administration ignore both the law and the Constitution and continue the federal crackdown on use and possession of marijuana.

According to Yans, decriminalizing marijuana use, Yans insists, sends the ?wrong message to the rest of the nation and it sends a wrong message abroad.? According to him, Americans are bound by international treaty obligations to continue the madness of drug prohibition. It?s difficult to find a better illustration of our need to end prohibition and free ourselves from the United Nations.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.