Posted on 08/21/2009 2:53:19 AM PDT by SolidWood
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico enacted a controversial law on Thursday decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs while encouraging government-financed treatment for drug dependency free of charge.
The law sets out maximum "personal use" amounts for drugs, also including LSD and methamphetamine. People detained with those quantities will no longer face criminal prosecution; the law goes into effect on Friday.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
“Don’t lose site of the fact that hundreds of thousands of Americans are making a living off drugs being illegal. “
You are right, and I am certain that this has a lot to do with why these policies will never be examined. At least not until we have a true governmental reform.
For the 1st time in my life I can say “GOD BLESS MEXICO!”.
I wonder what the Drug Warriors in this country will do if this actually works & helps to reduce crime & the influence of the Narco-Terrorists in Mexico.
Do you think the Wickard decision, which expanded the scope of the Commerce Clause during FDR's reign, is consistent with the clause's original meaning... yes or no?
It has EVERYTHING to do with invasion of rights by government. It has everything to do with tearing up the Constitution for EVERYONE in the name of “protecting” some from themselves by killing them or jailing them because they use the UNAPPROVED recreational substances. It is the police checkpoints and “Your papers, if you please (or even if you don’t)” for EVERYONE in the name of the war on some drugs. It is the trashing of the Fourth amendment in particular and the militarization of cops and the busting in the wrong doors in the middle of the night and killing and maiming INNOCENTS in the name of the WOsD. It is a Liberal’s wetdream of control handed them by so-called “conservatives” and YOU have a LOT to answer for.
Wonderful! Mexico legalizes the crap down there, and grows it here on our public lands. These people really know how to use our lack of enforcement against us, don’t they? A young man died because of Mexican drug cartels yesterday.
BAKER CITY, Ore. - A U.S. Forest Service employee is dead after being struck by a falling tree as he helped clean up a marijuana growing operation in eastern Oregon.
Forest Service workers and members of the Baker County Narcotics Team were removing a marijuana garden in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest southwest of Unity when the dead tree toppled and hit the man Thursday morning.
The Oregonian reports that the death is being investigated by federal, state and local authorities.[snip]
http://www.adn.com/nation/story/905973.html
ALSO:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320904/posts
Mexico’s narcoterror is here. They’re recruiting from our military and fighting for control of our land.
Headline today: Record marijuana grow pulled up by the roots in Siskiyou County
http://www.ktvl.com/articles/marijuana-1191647-siskiyou-county.html
full version video: http://www.ktvl.com/video/?videoId=34835560001&play=now
What is truly interesting about this story is that the local CBS TV , KTVL Channel 10 affiliate finally ‘gets it’. They actually did some reporting on these pot farms being run on public lands by organized Mexican Drug Cartels after years of many of us pleading with them to inform the public of this danger. What is frightening, is how real that danger has become.
This marijuana grow stretched 2 miles. For years, our local sheriffs have fought these incursions, only to watch them grow more widespread. Siskiyou county is a conservative, quiet sparsely populated huge land mass. Along peaceful country roads that have been settled by old families, independent, self reliant types, late in the night citizens now hear voices in Spanish conversing as they walk up and down ‘patrolling’.
We knew the cartels were armed, that they contained the worst elements of Mexican organized crime; the Zeta’s, various cartels, MS-13, awol military.
What we didn’t know, is now that their enterprise of growing on millions of acres of USA land became so successful , is that now the cartels are at war with each other over ‘territory’ and contraband crops. One group may go in and cultivate the crop, only to have it taken with force by a better armed gang.
We have been warned for years in the counties of No.California and So. Oregon to stay clear of the ‘woods’, to never approach anything that looked like a pot farm.
Now we are being warned of the war between the cartels taking place on our peaceful country lanes. It is easier for the cartels to recruit laborers, with less risk to grow on these ‘protected sanctuaries’ than it is in Mexico. Where shall we go to escape?
Last week these cartels burned 860,000 acres in California. Will we become ‘collateral’ damage to their fires or their bullets? Unlike Mexico, in what has become an every day occurrence , we’ve had no beheadings...yet.
Our Department of Homeland security is spending billions in Mexico to help them fight these cartels there, to keep any of our guns from entering Mexico. But they say they don’t have the money to stop these invading armies from crossing the border and infiltrating our property. This congress refuses to fund a fence, but they’ll fund our people to go to Mexico and tell you this entire problem is the fault of the USA because some of our guns go to Mexico. When their criminal cast-offs are stopped from coming in, our guns will stop going out since the same people are working both sides of the border.
Yes, human trafficking IS HIGH. But NOT due to drugs or drug use (except as women are deliberately addicted to keep them under control). This trafficking is mainly due to extreme poverty in the countries the women and girls come from and perverted sexual demand in the countries they wind up in... That drug lords may be involved is due to the fact that they already have smuggling routes and distribution points already set up. So one more of your arguments goes up in smoke.
“Think about the problems Mexico is enduring before casting stones.”
Better think about the problems MEXICO is causing us!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320904/posts
Society (as opposed to government) has ways of controlling behavior WITHOUT laws in place. Look at how, for the most part, smoking has decreased due to societal disapproval. The LAWS followed, unfortunately, but the cessation of smoking was primarily due to society shunning smokers. And look back at history. Divorce was once UNHEARD OF. It was legal and all, but societal norms were such that it virtually NEVER happened. Then society changed (for the worse, mostly) and divorce ran rampant throughout the nation. So you don’t need LAWS to discourage drug use. You need a moral society, which ain’t ever gonna come about as long as people use laws in place of morals.
Looks like the tourist industry is trying to get all those spring breakers to come back...
Unfortunately that's about the only option left for those interested in preserving their society - and all it accomplishes is to postpone the downfall for a short time, at the expense of liberty lost in the process.
As you say, at the expense of liberty.
Also, the surrender of liberty itself atrophies the moral muscles needed for self restraint.
THAT has never happened in the history of mankind. True, people find OTHER WAYS to destroy themselves and their nations, but NOT EVER rampant drug use. Usually it’s bread and circuses, living at the expense of others against their will. These sorts of things. Like what did in the Roman Republic, then Empire and what is now doing in the Brits... Drugs? No.
“Not “in place of”, but “to reflect, uphold and reinforce” - that’s what I’m suggesting their function is and ought to be.”
Not only “NO,” but HELL NO! GOVERNMENT HAS NO PLACE IN THE MORALITY BUSINESS. In order to enforce “morality” (and who decides whose morality should be enforced? Judeo-Christian? Sharia? Paganism? Animal sacrifice? HUMAN sacrifice? Who decides? And how?), you must of necessity give government TOTAL CONTROL over the populace, and that is UTTERLY unacceptable.
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