Posted by Sigismund on March 2, 2009, at 17:35:10
In reply to Re: Will Mexico Collapse Under Drug Wars?, posted by fayeroe on March 2, 2009, at 17:20:07
>If President Vicente Fox signs the legislation (and despite some pressure from the U.S. government, it appears that he will), Mexico will join the ranks of the Netherlands and several other countries that have abandoned the "zero tolerance" model embraced by the United States.
Well, there's a turn up for the books.
I have the slight and fragile impression that we may becoming more mature about drugs as a society. It is superficial stuff, like Clinton saying he didn't inhale vs Obama saying that inhalation was the point. But I don't know. [Here we even have a special kind of petrol (for outback communities) called Opal which is meant to be unsniffable. To say nothing of the way we drink.]
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