When a mob like this forms, whatever is still banned, however good the reason, will find them in the middle of it. What would Teddy Roosevelt do? What’s the Mexican word for chutzpah?
Demand drives the market. The market drives the violence.
Just legalize it and send most of the cartels thugs to the unemployment line.
MEXICO CITY — Once praised lavishly by the United States for waging a war on drugs, Mexico’s last two presidents now say legalizing them may be the best way to end the rising violence the U.S.-backed campaign has unleashed.
I guess Foxs funds are running low since he must not be seeing anymore of the kickback he was probably receiving from the cartel. The violence is on your side Senor and you did nothing but ignore it when you were Presidente. Your opinion means even less now that you are gone.
complete surrender to a Narco State on our open border, onederful, huh?
Sure legalize everything,that is all that crap hole is good for!
I don’t understand how legalzation would make the cartels go away.
Screw you, Fox. Your refried brain probably looks like Chavez’s prostrate.
From http://www.narconon.org/drug-information/mexico-drug-addiction.html
Mexico’s Addiction Survey Reports Rapid Growth in Drug Use
The national Addiction Survey is completed every five or six years, the latest one being in 2008 and the prior survey being published in 2002. Fifty thousand homes in Mexico are surveyed, but authorities commented that they were reluctant to survey some of the northern states where drug manufacture and trafficking is the most prevalent, due to safety concerns for the surveyors.
The 2008 Addiction Survey reported that the number of people who had used drugs increased by a million between 2002 and 2008 - from 3.5 million to 4.5 million. Inhalable cocaine use almost doubled. For those between the ages of 12 and 25, 43 percent are exposed to drug use, half of those experiment with drugs and 13 percent use drugs frequently. The number of those addicted to illegal drugs increased 51 percent to nearly half a million.
In addition to those who are addicted, the Addiction Survey reported that another four million people needed what they termed a “brief intervention” to get them off drugs, and that 80 percent of the population needs prevention help. The survey also reported that the use of crack cocaine, methamphetamine and powder cocaine that had previously only been seen in Tijuana and Baja California had now spread to more than 100 cities.
I’ll take Calderon over Fox any day of the week.
Vicente Fox urges legalization of all drugs in Mexico — and worldwide
Yep, that’s Vicente Fox — still crazy, after all these years.
http://mexicogulfreporter.blogspot.com/2011/10/vicente-fox-urges-legalization-of-all.html
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