Posted on 05/18/2006 12:35:37 AM PDT by one more state
Police enraged by the kidnapping of six officers club unarmed detainees. A bloody battle between steelworkers and police leaves two miners dead. Drug lords post the heads of decapitated police on a fence to show who's in charge.
Less than two months before Mexicans elect their next president, many fear the country is teetering on the edge of chaos a perception that could hurt the ruling National Action Party's chances of keeping the presidency and benefit Mexico's once-powerful Institutional Revolutionary Party, whose candidate has been trailing badly.
Some blame President Vicente Fox for a weak government. Others say rivals are instigating the violence to create that impression, hoping to hurt National Action candidate Felipe Calderon, who has a slight lead in recent polls.
A poll published Friday in Excelsior newspaper found 50 percent of respondents feared the government was on the brink of losing control. The polling company Parametria conducted face-to-face interviews at 1,000 homes across Mexico. The poll had a margin of error of 3 percentage points.
In April, suspected drug lords posted the heads of two police officers on a wall outside a government building where four drug traffickers died in a Jan. 27 shootout with officers in the Pacific resort of Acapulco.
A sign nearby read: "So that you learn to respect."
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No need to get your panties in a wad, just smoke some more "American", apparently it's your favorite./sarc
As to my point, there are several studies out there, but please use some common sense. Like any other agricultural "product" marijuana has been modified and selectively bred over a period of decades for increased profit and potency.
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/drug/articles/marijuana/m_hi_tpr.htm
I believe the Monroe Doctrine is the one we interpret as us not allowing the Euroweenies to muck around in our hemisphere. The Monroe Doctrine is sympatico with Manifest Destiny.
Nuke Mexico City that is the only answer. Or should it be MOABed?
Are you from Canada? Since the link is I thought you might be as well.
Tsk, tsk, is that the best you can up with? I'm very disappointed.
You chose a site with the most outrageous numbers you could find, didn't you.
Well, your link is a site for children...what do they know. Is that why you chose it? Do children come here?
Really, though marijuana with 52 percent THC? You don't find that just a little preposterous?
And don't you think that something written be a Victoria cop would be just a little bit biased?
So is ours.
I'm worried about the U.S. being on the edge of chaos.
The political turmoil was actually helped by our open borders. Fox's party did not need to satisfy the base, simply export them and keep status quo. Now it's coming back to bite him. If the wrong party gets into power in Mexico it will be a bad mark on the open-border Mcain people
Third, the use of average potency can be also be potentially misleading, since the average ignores differences between cannabis users in preferences for cannabis products of varying potency. There probably has always been a market for more potent products among the heavier, and hence, more THC-tolerant, cannabis users. Marijuana probably remains the majority preference of cannabis users, although this is an issue worthy of investigation.
Fourth, it is not obvious that more potent forms of cannabis inevitably have more adverse effects on users' health than less potent forms. Indeed, it is conceivable that increased potency may have little or no adverse effect if users are able to titrate their dose to achieve the desired state of intoxication, as some have argued they do (e.g. Kleiman, 1992; Mikuyira and Aldrich, 1988). If users were able to titrate their dose, the use of more potent cannabis products would reduce the amount of cannabis material that was smoked, which would marginally reduce the risks of developing respiratory diseases.
Snip...All considered then, it is far from established that the average THC potency of cannabis products has substantially increased over recent decades. If potency has increased, it is even less certain that the average health risks of cannabis use have materially changed as a consequence, since users may titrate their dose to achieve the desired effects.
Pretty interesting stuff.
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