Posted on 04/12/2018 7:05:49 AM PDT by mandaladon
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Former Mexican President Vicente Fox proposed on Wednesday the legalization of opium poppy production as a way to help end bloody turf battles fought by drug cartels in various parts of the country.
Fox served as president from 2000-2006 with the center-right National Action Party but has since distanced himself from the party. In the past, he has also advocated for the legalization of marijuana.
“The plants themselves are not harmful, we make them harmful, (especially) the criminals who use them for evil purposes,” Fox said at a pro-marijuana event in the capital.
He also implored Mexico’s presidential candidates to openly debate drug legalization ahead of the July vote.
The ex-leader cited the violence-racked southern state of Guerrero, arguing that drug legalization would curtail cartel profits and boost safety, including at the iconic beach resort of Acapulco, which has been ravaged with gangland violence over the past few years.
Guerrero, located along Mexico’s southwestern Pacific coast, is home to numerous poppy fields used to produce opium, the main ingredient in heroin.
Last year, more than 25,000 murders were recorded in Mexico as rival drug gangs increasingly splintered into smaller, more brutal groups after more than a decade of a military-led campaign to battle the cartels.
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I’m sure this will end totally screwed up.
Soma..................................
Afghanistan is not gonna take kindly to Mexico trying to imitate/eliminate the source of supply.
Soon Fentanyl will be rolling into the U.S. via tanker trucks.
Legalize all plants. Period.
Otherwise they become literal money trees for criminals. You simply can’t outlaw a plant that’s worth more than gold and people are willing to kill/steal for. Any attempt only makes it more profitable and increases corruption.
There is so much profit in outlawing drugs that cartels have bought every government on Earth. Our cartels just happen to produce more profitable patented synthetic versions of the same junk. Paid for by the taxpayers and delivered by the 18-wheeler load to pharmacies on every corner...
Hey, just make everything legal. Ban illegal from the dictionary.
Or just follow the money.
I wonder if the police will set up testing stations so you can bring your opium and make sure there is no Round-Up in it before you get hig...............HEY whats with the hand-cuffs?
It’s part of a two-pronged plan:
1. Legalize poppy production.
2. Support US border porosity and take bribes from the heroin producing and smuggling cartels.
“3.” was implied, LOL.
John Boehner is getting on the bandwagon
Yeah, it's a panacea that will enhance public safety -- no really, that's what he sez here. What a jackass. Build the Fence!!! Thanks mandaladon.
Vicente Fox is a hardworking Soros puppet.
Exactly my thoughts!
That describes the U.S. population.
When I read that eating poppy seeds can make you fail a drug test I switched to sesame seed bagels.
You can’t outlaw Mother Nature
Drug war idiots
You can outlaw and control pills
Vincente Fox: “It’s all about the drugs.”
MEXICO is bent on destroying American young people with an influx of drugs.
It’s not up to other nations to secure our border
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