Why don't you clean up your own mess, you corrupt POS.
Posted on 05/03/2011 12:53:13 PM PDT by markomalley
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox said this week that the only way to end the drug violence plaguing his country is for the United States to legalize drugs.
"As a country, we are going through problems due to the fact that the United States consumes too many drugs," Fox, who served as Mexico's president from 2000-2006, told reporters Monday night before a speech at the Turkish-American Chamber of Commerce in San Antonio.
"I would recommend to legalize, de-penalize all drugs," Fox added.
He said the drug violence threatens to rip his country apart. It has claimed more than 37,000 lives in Mexico since 2006, when President Felipe Calderon took office and sent the army to combat cartels fighting for smuggling routes to the United States.
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Fox said the U.S. drug market generates billions of dollars that are laundered in the United States and flow into Mexico, money that is used to bribe Mexican police officers and government officials and to buy weapons that are brought into Mexico.
"The question is not what is going on in Mexico, but what is going on in the United States," Fox said.
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Get the federal govt OUT of the drug enforcement business, and back in the border guarding business.
Why don't you clean up your own mess, you corrupt POS.
His profit margin would decline if the US legalized drugs. It would become a domestic US industry, rather than continuing to support Mexican cartels.
So tell me, Vince Baby! Are drugs legal in Mexico?
It doesn’t much matter. Drug prohibition in the U.S. is feeding the problem. One wonders how apologists for the WOD can sleep at night, given all the lives that are being destroyed.
Huh? The Drug cartel, like Al Capone and his ilk before them, are the ones who benefit from drug prohibition.
Let me understand: are you saying that fewer lives would be destroyed by legalizing cocaine, marijuana, etc. than by continuing to make possession and use criminal offenses?
You bet they are! And how peaceful their legalization makes Mexico.
Notice how Fox would say such a thing just as the USA in on the verge of Winning the War on Drugs?
Yo Vince, I wonder how many of your illegal invaders to the USA are drug users? Maybe if we sent about 15020 million of them back to you, much of our drug problem would go away.
I could get behind legalizing drugs if we also had a rule that any drug use (or resulting ailments) was not insured or eligible for public assistance, sort of a “use at your own risk” standard.
Has the mob gone out of business with the legalization of gambling throughout the US? Or, for that matter with the repeal of prohibition?
They just invest their profits so it can make money legally (or at least quasi-legally). They still make money. And plenty of it.
Of course we are on the verge of winning the War on Drugs.
All we need is Ten Trillion More Dollars and a Thousand Years.
He’s right.
Yeh then Mexico won’t have to deal with the drug cartels anymore. Not a chance Vince. Tell your buddy Calderon to suck it up. When we shut that border down with the military you will be cage fighting those animals. Maybe if you weren’t the most corrupt country (next to ours) on the continent you wouldn’t have these problems.
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