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 ...
Before all you ‘moral authoritarians’ go off the deep end, consider this.
Drug Decriminalization in Portugal:
Lessons for Creating Fair and Successful Drug Policies
“...more than seven years have now elapsed since enactment of Portugal’s decriminalization system, there are ample data enabling its effects to be assessed.
...none of the nightmare scenarios touted by preenactment decriminalization opponents — from rampant increases in drug usage among the young to the transformation of Lisbon into a haven for “drug tourists” — has occurred.”
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10080
Here’s the full 38 page report from the Cato Institute:
http://www.cato.org/pubs/wtpapers/greenwald_whitepaper.pdf
bfl. btw, great pics.
Wow, what is that picture of?
Mexico, libertarian paradise.
Par for the course.
UNREAL.
now just as in europe, they will lose a generation to drug abuse.
Instead of taking the battle head on and stopping it, they act like a parent who catches their kids smoking then just buy cigarettes for them
“There’s just one thing left to do.”
“...Tijuana roadtrip!”
Counterfeit [Michigan Cigarette] Tax Stamps
California Schemin': Cigarette Tax Evasion and Crime In the Golden State
...Maybe if Mexico starts taxing these drugs, they’ll get out of debt. Sh!t, they,re already stoned! Be too bad for the drug lords, they can do business, it just won’t be so lucrative...
...Look on the bright side. Maybe folks will stay, for what ever reasons. And, if yer so against druggies, maybe they’ll move south, and get out of the neighborhood...
...Should have been done long ago. I’m actually warming up to the idea myself...
If the kid wants to smoke, he can find a lackadaisical convenience store owner and buy a pack of smokes, instead of having to descend into the underworld of violent mafia crime which controls the illegal drug trade.
If a convenience store owner sells smokes to underage kids too often, he can lose his license, thus creating a strong incentive NOT to sell the smokes to the kids, an incentive which the violent mafia drug dealers don't have.
Surveys have indicated that high schoolers find it much easier to buy pot than to buy tobacco or alcohol.
"Taking the battle head on" thus far has meant acting like a parent who blows their kids brains out if they catch them smoking. Surely that's just as stupid as buying cigarettes for them, yes?
It will be somehow subsidized by American taxpayers, be proclaimed by the Dems a great success, and become law here as well.
Any entrepreneur could make a FORTUNE with this law being enacted. I am seriously tempted to go to Mexico, set up a garden to grow stuff, and then sell it.
I agree.
Party in Tijuana.
The WOD is unconstitutional and ineffective.
So called conservatives who complain and cry about the lack of liberty and freedom and then support restrictions on freedom and liberty (The WOD) are clueless hypocrites.
You cant have it both ways.
Good start. Mexico gets one right.
Supporters of the WOD surrendered liberty and freedom years ago.
Agreed. Spot on.
WOD is a joke.
LSD is not cocaine , nor is it realted in anyway to cocaine.
Half of all Americans have used drugs at some point in their life.
so you think that this was actually a good idea I take it?
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