Geplaatst op 17-01-2014
Cannabis social clubs invite pope Franciscus to nominate Jose Mujica Cordano for the Nobel Peace Prize 2014
Today, Friday January 17th, the Mambo Social Club of Hasselt (Belgium) and the Cannabis Social Club of Maribor (Slovenia) invited pope Francis to nominate his colleague head of state, Jose Mujica, the president of Uruguay, for the Nobel Peace Prize 2014 for his decision to legalize cannabis in his country. Although both clubs are aware of the outspoken prohibitionist tradition of the Roman Catholic church and of the public declarations of the pope against legalization of cannabis, they equally have noticed that brother Francis, as they call the pope, has said at various occasions that he wishes the church to return to basic human values of modesty and commitment to each other. How committed is brother Francis to his brother José from the northern river bank of the Rio de la Plata? Is he going to give him a fair chance to carry out his experiment with the cannabis legalization or will he instruct the R.C. Church of Uruguay to oppose the Mujica experiment? The 2 inviting clubs belong to a European wide network of cannabis social clubs (CSCs) that are set up to protect the rights of cannabis consumers and producers and help establish cannabis policies that benefit society as a whole. Their members are responsible adult citizens who organize the cultivation of a limited amount of cannabis to satisfy their personal needs and provide alleviation and healing for the ill. They claim that their experience shows that president Mujica’s alternative for peace may be successful if given a fair chance.
The invitation to the pope was delivered to the apostolic nuncio in Montevideo, Uruguay, Mgr. Janusz Bolonek, as part of a broader campaign organized by the Netherlands-based Drugs Peace Institute. Besides the pope, members of the Vatican government (the curia), of the College of Cardinals (Upper House) and of the College of Bishops (Lower House) were invited to nominate as these prelates too are qualified by Alfred Nobel. The nomination campaign for president Mujica comes to an end on January 31. On that same day, all cannabis clubs and friends who participated in the campaign will send the official nomination of president Mujica to the Oslo Nobel Committee. A nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize requires 100 individual nominations. It is rather unlikely that many bishops, from Rome or elsewhere, will come out against the roman catholic doctrine of abstinence on the use of mind-altering substances. But the cannabis consumers will certainly rejoice if only one prelate nominates, even if the other 9999 prefer to wait for many more millions of youngsters to be incarcerated, more laundered money to be spent on proxy wars, more cities to be taken over by drug gangs and more scientific studies to prove that the war on drugs is a failure.
By way of precaution the campaign focuses on the endorsement by members of all the other governments and parliaments and university professors in history, law, philosophy political and social sciences, and theology, all equally qualified to nominate for the Nobel Peace Prize.
