Mexico Legalizes Drug Possession

[Tab]

Originally posted by: Vic
They decriminalized, not legalized. There is a significant difference.

Ignoring the small amounts, this was the first thing I noticed. So, it's a civil offense - i.e just a ticket right? Does the same apply to non-citizens?

 

[Craig234]

So, legal to have, but not to obtain.

What could go wrong with a policy to oppose the drug dealers, but increase their market by removing a barrier allowing more customers to feel safe having the drugs?

I understand why it was done - to combat police corruption - but how can it have the desired effect on the drug war, if the government doesn't make the drugs available?

Why wouldn't legalizing the *sale* by license businesses of small amount hurt criminals?

 

[First]

Seriously.

 

[Siddhartha]

Mexico realized it could not afford to try to protect their country from small amounts of drugs.

Anyone want to start a poll on when the US comes to the same realization?

 

[DucatiMonster696]

Originally posted by: ebaycj

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

Originally posted by: MotF Bane
Now if only our politicians could learn something from this.

:thumbsup:

I hate to say it, but marijuana and cocaine are mild these days. Legalize the non-hardcore stuff, let public companies profit from it instead of street gangs and tax the hell out of it. The release of prisoners that are in jail on cocaine and marijuana charges would also help state budgets.

Feel free to ban it in your home state if your voters so chose, just not at the federal level.

Wow Cocaine is mild? You do realize that use of cocaine leads to addiction and prolong use eventually leads to organ failure ??? Here's hoping your kids get hooked on cocaine or its baking soda based cheaper form crack.

 

[Druidx]

It to bad people didn't realize how stupid the war on drugs was before starting the war on terror. Anyone want to guess what war will be next? Maybe the war on Co2.

 

[blackangst1]

Originally posted by: Druidx
It to bad people didn't realize how stupid the war on drugs was before starting the war on terror. Anyone want to guess what war will be next? Maybe the war on Co2.

No. War on the wealthy. Its already started.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: blackangst1
No. War on the wealthy. Its already started.

War on poverty sounds better.

Wealth redistribution is the weapon.

 

[Freshgeardude]

sounds like a good idea tbh. I bet many mexican policemen/women were killed because they stopped a drug dealer with a gun, and instead of them now shooting that cop to keep the drugs, they dont have to be aggressive.

 

[CallMeJoe]

Originally posted by: DucatiMonster696
Wow Cocaine is mild? You do realize that use of cocaine leads to addiction and prolong use eventually leads to organ failure ??? Here's hoping your kids get hooked on cocaine or its baking soda based cheaper form crack.

Prolonged use of cocaine leads some users to physical addiction; prolonged heavy use can lead to organ failure.

I would no more wish addiction on someone's children than I would wish them to get caught in the crossfire of two gangs fighting in a turf war triggered by the obscene profits facilitated by our nation's "War on Drugs".

 

[OCGuy]

Originally posted by: Freshgeardude
sounds like a good idea tbh. I bet many mexican policemen/women were killed because they stopped a drug dealer with a gun, and instead of them now shooting that cop to keep the drugs, they dont have to be aggressive.

Seeing how guns are illegal in Mexico, I think the drug dealer would still have a problem.

Also, there isnt a dealer in the world that will only have a half gram of yeyo on him at a time.

 

[canadageek]

this is only for consumers, not the dealers. This way mexico can make more room in their prisons for hardcore criminals and not petty drug users.

...which is exactly what America needs to do. There are way to many people in the pokey for nonviolent offenses.

 

[Carmen813]

We fund both sides of the war on drugs, and for that, we'll never win.

Thank you Leo McGarry

 

[rudder]

Originally posted by: TruePaige

Originally posted by: Lanyap

Originally posted by: blackangst1

Originally posted by: MovingTarget
They were completely legal here once before... It is time we reevaluated the 'war on drugs'. Unless we do so, this does not bode well for our law enforcement systems...

Pot was outlawed in Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 under FDR, and of course opiates in 1917 under Woodrow Wilson. So we can thank the Democrats for the war on drugs

Damn democrats - we could all be getting high right now. They were probably like rebublicans back then. LOL

Marijuana, ok. I don't know about cocaine and heroin, even in small amounts. Why not add meth and other heavies.

Actually if you read the article, it also decrimed LSD and Meth in small amounts.

hmmm... a small amount of lsd could be a 100 doses.

 

[ahurtt]

give them an inch. . .

 

[OutHouse]

i wonder if Obama had anything to do with this when he had his "3 Amigo's" summit?

"hey Amigo, you decriminalize small amounts of drugs in Mexico and the US and Canada will follow if your program works"

 

[Atreus21]

Originally posted by: IGBT
good. now all the US druggies and dopers can go south.

i was about to say, they're opening the floodgate to get their emigrants back.