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Posted by fayeroe on March 2, 2009, at 9:08:14
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29413556/
Legalize marijuna and stop some of it.....quit throwing "small" drug offenders into prison and spend lots money on rehabilitation in U.S.(starting with the family)
Look the problem in the face and stop "the war on drugs". It never worked and never will. Well, it has made many wealthier.
Posted by Sigismund on March 2, 2009, at 17:11:12
In reply to Will Mexico Collapse Under Drug Wars?, posted by fayeroe on March 2, 2009, at 9:08:14
Is it true that Mexico has legalised or decriminalised all drugs in small quantities?
I seem to recall that amounts under 1g were?
What seems really unfair to me is when both the need for drugs and the need to control them is exported to third world countries, and they have to suffer the consequences of the poisons that not only destroy the coca but also the orchards. We've been great on poisons. Western civilisation!
Although, I understand we need our virtues and our hypocrisies.
Why should these people not suffer for us?
We make no apologies for our way of life.
Posted by fayeroe on March 2, 2009, at 17:20:07
In reply to Re: Will Mexico Collapse Under Drug Wars?, posted by Sigismund on March 2, 2009, at 17:11:12
Two Restrained Cheers for Mexico's New Drug Law
by Ted Galen Carpenter
Ted Galen Carpenter, vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, is the author of Bad Neighbor Policy: Washington's Futile War on Drugs in Latin America (Palgrave/Macmillan).
Added to cato.org on May 3, 2006
Mexico's Congress has just passed legislation that would decriminalize the possession of small quantities of illegal drugs. 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.
I understand that the U.S. is trying to cut down the opium trade in Afghanistan with other crops? I read it and can't remember what it was.
Yes, the sale of drugs is like the pebble in the water.......ripple effect. But we must soldier on while enjoying the fruits of the labor.
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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