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.
So I take it this is now Cherman Uncensored?
#1 jasmoran66
Lay off.
#1, f off.
…Drugs are bad, but like alcohol and cigarettes, they shouldn’t be regulated by the government.
What does the A and T in ATF stand for? Alcohol and tobacco are highly regulated by the government.
I think he means to say “like alcohol and cigarettes, they SHOULD be regulated by the government.”
Notice correlation: country’s Govt. losing grip on maintaining law and order on the streets, mainly due to the drug cartels… Than, instead of solving the real problem: drug cartels, they give up on catching “small offenders” to redirect attention.
Legalization of drugs=Govt. out of control, crime lords calling the shots. Please, go live in Mexico if you find that in any way good. Or in Amsterdam, or in Somalia, or in Afghanistan…
The last time Mexico legalized drugs BushCo bribed them with money and military equipment to reverse direction which they did to their great injury.
One small difference between Obama and Bush is Obama is demonstrating a willingness to let other people exercise their autonomy rather than threaten conformity. Maybe it isn’t that small a thing if Mexico can provide this needed leadership, the USA can follow?
For whatever reasons you are for or against legalized drugs and the extent to which they are legalized the following should play into your thinking: when drugs are illegal, more innocent people who want nothing to do with drugs get hurt than when drugs are legalized.
When ideology trumps the value of human beings and their health and safety==you’ve got a zealot to be avoided. Most of our drug laws/morality laws are based on zealotry.
Zealotry and corruption. Just like always, follow the money..
Oh please Cherman small amounts of drugs will never be legal in the US. Just think of the uproar it will cause if they do become legal.
What maryland said.
The “slippery slope” crowd would be shouting so loud you couldn’t hear yourself think.
Pentagon induces Schenectady NY to ASK FOR MARTIAL LAW.
http://capitalnews9.com/content/top_stories/135816/schenectady-mayor-considers-options–martial-law-over-police-woes/?RegionCookie=12
Well this is fine for the Mexicans but I still wouldn’t feel safe get drunk not to mention high or tripping in Mexico. Well, maybe in some of the tourist areas it might be safe.
I’m not happy saying this but I could go for legalizing hemp and treating it just like any other crop. Tax the smoking kind just like tobacco.
I see it as way to raise some cash and weaken the drug dealers while allowing the legal system to refocus a bit.
DO NOT SMOKE MARIJUANA…
…without cleaning it first. The seeds pop and burn holes in the habit.
It seems that the US is still trying to hold on to 16th Century Puritan Ideals, that have long gone in our society. The Drugs traffic and Prostitution industry where illeagle causes allot of livezs to be ruined, these thngs should be leagalized and regulated, then we could concentrate on real criminals… Oh an #6 you forgot Portigal, they have decriminalized drugs and have great success and programs to assist the addicts, not prosecute them. I also beleive that Amsterdam is a bad example as compared to Afghanistan?… What was that?.. It seems a little common sense can go along way on this one. I think Mexico has done the right thing. I am not a drug user and Never have been, but looking at this in a practical sense, it seems the right thing to do. I would like to see the US do the same. But the number of all the Government jobs involved in combatting this it will seem not likely. Federal Flat Tax System/Leagalized Drugs and Prostitiution/ smaller Government, allot of crime would simply go away.
Unfortunately, we have a while before our “leaders” pull their heads out of their behinds and see the light.
About god-damned time. Hopefully,Mexico will continue this trend and tell us in the U.S. to buzz off.
#13 deowll had it dead on — legalize it, tax it, and focus on real crimes, not teenagers and dropouts.
Drugs are bad? Why are drugs bad? I submit that drugs are merely things that are in themselves neither good or bad. A lot of what makes drug “bad” is the result of drug laws which drive up prices and generate insane profits for the makers/growers/dealers (and perhaps some corrupt cops and government officials.)
BTW, alcohol and cigarettes (a nicotine delivery system) are drugs. They should not be talked about or treated in conversation as though they are somehow different. Alcohol and tobacco are responsible for more deaths each year than ALL illegal drugs combined.
I think they should be regulated, and guess what? Alcohol and Tobacco is regulated. In order to regulate something they have to legalize it first, and then tax it so that people are less inclined to buy the stuff, i.e. regulation.
When it comes to marijuana this might not work since California is so broke, changes are that it may tax it (read: regulate) so much that it’s not worth buying, and it’s cheaper to get it from the black market whom people are already getting it from.
About friggen time.
-now all we need to do is criminalize the vatican and it’s control system and maybe sound logic will finally prevail in this country (and everywhere else that that scourge has infected the planet with its lunacy with)
- “No Escape for you!”
-s