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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.
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They forces. With Guns, and courts, fines and prisons.
The left, and the big business Republicans FORCED the county, us, to hand over half of everything you ever earn for all of your life.
I've never been robbed by a criminal. But I get robbed each and every day, with real money by the government.
I can handle a stoner, doper or a armed ‘honest to God’ criminal. I can not defend my self from the thieving of the IRS, ATF, Congress and the President.
Yes I have seen the effects of legalized drugs; I lived in Europe for over three years. Be careful of what you assume on this forum; we have some very experienced and thoughful people on FR.
Instead of engaging in over-generalized banter, let us get specific. An old friend of mine investigated a multiple murder. A daughter was raped and murdered, a boy was tortured and murdered and the grandparents were murdered by a drug dealer who was looking for a 17 year-old kid who owed him under a hundred dollars. That was in the US!
Laws cannot take the place of human dignity. If some person wants to do drugs they will do them despite what laws say. As the nation has clearly lost the drug war, it is time to get into the business and clean things up in a way that takes money and power away from the criminals.
Think about that.....
But it's curious how that tiny minority came to get a stranglehold on the RAT Party.Hasn't Hussein I,himself,casually admitted to cocaine use?
Maybe our addicted will move there and enjoy the freedom to
live with the suppliers? Is there a fund I can donate to that will hire buses with one way tickets to Mexico?
Is it now legal to sale that amount?
It's a shame that prohibition led to this tragic outcome. Under a sane, rational government the dealer would have sued him, they both would gone on People's Court, and Judge Milian would have chewed them both out and sent them on their way with the debt settled like she does with all the eBay and Craigslist car purchase cases.
Yeah, you'd think that if these "illegal" drugs were as bad as the propaganda says they are, nobody who took them could possibly go on to be a productive member of society, let alone President of the US.
I suppose they're "producing" communism, eh?
Since I was on campus during those years, I can say from direct evidence that...no...LSD was never handed out like candy on the campus of the major university I was studying at.
And on top of that, tax dollars will go to treating them. What a country!
That’s why I can’t take the “libertarian” position on drugs. Because we all know we would wind up footing the bill for treating these losers.
Like how Portugal and the Netherlands have lower rates of marijuana use than the U.S.? That's what you were talking about, right?
From a purely cost standpoint I honestly don’t see how treatment programs would cost more than than the war on drugs.
Just think of the costs to house one prisoner, multiplied by the amount of prisoners in jail for minor drug offenses. Multiple police agencies who do nothing but drug busts. All of the associated court costs to process minor drug offenders.
The war on drugs has cost hundreds of billions of dollars and there is no evidence of any positive effect.
Personally I would legalize everything that can be grown naturally, and keep harsh penalties for manufacturing chemical drugs, aka meth and acid.
lol! but it’s really not funny....
But our elected officials never learn.
Some say legalize drugs and tax the hell out of them to pay for gov. programs. The problem I have with that is for one it would then create the black market you are trying to eliminate due to high taxes.
Also, what happens to that gov. program when the drug use revenue doesn't come in as predicted?
Just legalize most of the stuff. Especially pot
I wonder if this applies to non-citizens? I would think it does but with Mexico you never know. If it is legal to have and use drugs in Mexico maybe we will see a migration of our drug addicts to Mexico~ ha ha that would be poetic justice.
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