UN has moved to stop resticting it's use for medicinal purposes, but it is still banned for private consumption. As a signatory to the UN drugs convention, US has voted againsy decriminalisation.
This is a clumsy summary, ANAL
This is a clumsy summary, ANAL
Safe to say we can all ignore that treaty with impunity.
edit: Oh and the sky didn’t fall either. If anything, the opposite: marijuana isn’t a cool edgy thing anymore. You just do it if you want to, or don’t if you don’t.
The black market still exists, but prices have cratered, so assuming black market demand is unchanged (it’s probably lower), the criminal element has shrunk in size.
I wouldn’t call using the office of the privacy commissioner as cover for CSIS “resource extraction” or “financial engineering”, but I’ll give them credit, they are quite good at playing dumb.
Are you saying US is not a signatory to the convention?
Are you saying that US is not bound by international agreements, treaties and contracts that it has signed up to, of it's own accord?
Are you saying that US can leave the agreement at any time? (I beleive it can)
Or are you saying that is US breaks the obligations it signed up to, the UN cannot hold it accountable?
In general the US, as the world dominant cultural, military and economic power, signs agreements to bind others, not themselves.