MEXICO CITY — Mexico decriminalized small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin on Friday — a move that prosecutors say makes sense even in the midst of the government's grueling battle against drug traffickers. Prosecutors said the new law sets clear limits that keep Mexico's corruption-prone police from extorting casual users and offers addicts free treatment to keep growing domestic drug use in check. "This is not legalization, this is regulating the issue and giving citizens greater legal certainty," said Bernardo Espino del Castillo of the attorney general's office. The new law sets out maximum "personal use" amounts for drugs, also including LSD and methamphetamine. People detained with those quantities no longer face criminal prosecution.
Can someone explain to me how, if everyone's allowed a "personal use" amount, where they get it from? If there's a limit of X grams of something for personal use, who's the guy with 50X grams selling to these personal users? Are they going to sell heroin at the Mexican Wal-Mart?
You answered your own question. Basically they are saying they won't go after end users. Dealing is still an offense. It will reduce crowding in the prisons and the court system, which will save them money in the long run. They will not solve their problems until they deciminalize drugs period. Prohibition does not work. It never has, and never will unless you have a big brother society to support it, and even then it's success will be limited at best.
It's mainly a marijuana documentary that debunks several myths and talks about marijuana's history. It also goes into more depth about how prohibition has never worked, etc. About an hour and a half long: [video=google;-9077214414651731007]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9077214414651731007[/video]
Unsurprising. Mexico is barely a country at this point. There's a thread on this board about President Obama causing a civil war here in the US. Well, in Mexico it's actually happening. They're damn close to becoming like Colombia in the late 80s-early 90s.
When we finally pull Blackwater out of Iraq we can send them to Mexico. At US taxpayer expense of course.
was chatting with a mexican bar owner the other day at a restaurant who was sitting next to me...said Mexico right now is basically like Colombia in the 80s or something...really really fucked up.
I think it's a plot to lure wealthy American college kids to spend all their money in Mexico, then get kidnapped and held for ransom.
Cost of building a "Keep Out" Fence across Guatemala << Cost of Building a "Keep Out" Fence across the Mexican border.
