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.
Will the US be next? I hope so. Drugs are bad, but like alcohol and cigarettes, they shouldn’t be regulated by the government.
Decriminalizing small amounts of pot makes sense.
However, the conservative republican socialist nazis rather have the government control what you stick in your mouth.
This includes all sorts of orally consumed goods.
This is a step in the right direction but you have to realise that there is a balance between the US and Mexico. Mexico has clearly been getting the worst side of the balance up until now, but if they start to actually fix things in Mexico and not the US, then guess where the problem is going to go?
This is all about tourist revenue. I know some people that live in the big spring break resort areas. It was empty there recently because of swine flu. Really empty.
Mexico is not a functional country. The reason is drugs. For people that say it is wimpy to back down from the war on drugs: look around. Governments always lose. Anything that grows on a tree and can be sold for thousands of dollars is going to be grown and sold.
If Mexico sticks with this look for Canada(B.C.) to make official their longstanding acceptance of bud.
It will never happen in the US. There are too many people in this country who can’t mind their own damned business and want someone else to raise their kids for them. They would rather have the violent crime just so they can pretend to be tough.
aside from all the regular hoopla,
I recall many studies done in argentina and spain in the 70′s that showed THC shrunk and then eliminated many forms of brain tumors (cancers) and also prevented them from forming.
additionally, it was found to reduce the effects of Alzheimer’s disease..
there are hundreds of research studies from the 70′s forward that show conclusive proof of marijuanna’s many health benefits. the main problem is that any study that showed overwhelming positive effects was conducted outside the U.S. -which for all intensive purposes, renders it null and void in the eyes
of the AMA and similar sham organizations that are considered the “pillars of medical excellence (or academia) here in the states..
one needs to search for studies published in languages other than english to find research based on actual science and not political science.
i highly recommend searching through Russian and Spanish language research. -esp Russian
for science in general.
contrary to popular myths, the Russians are light years ahead of us when it comes to science.
-s
Isn’t pot legal with a “prescription” in California? The do have a lot of dispensaries despite the fact they keep getting raided by the DEA. Didn’t BHO say he would stop that? Did he? Inquiring minds want to know.
Legalizing pot requires a Joint effort.
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