"Next stop: MEXICO, mannnnnnnnnnnnnnn -- !"
Posted on 05/06/2006 7:28:54 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
BOGOTA, Colombia - Mexico has passed a sweeping bill legalizing the possession of small quantities of almost all illegal drugs, including heroin and cocaine.
The regime, likely to be one of the most liberal in the world, is designed to avoid clogging prisons with drug addicts, allowing police to go after big-time dealers.
Under the bill, it would be legal to possess 25 milligrams of heroin, five grams of marijuana, half a gram of cocaine, as well as small amounts of LSD, hallucinogenic mushrooms, amphetamines, and a hallucinogenic cactus, peyote.
All that remains is for President Fox to sign the bill into law, a certainty despite American reservations, as it was he that proposed the legislation in 2004.
"This law gives police and prosecutors better legal tools to combat drug crimes that do so much damage to our youth and children," his spokesman said.
While unhappy about any law that made the availability of drugs more widespread and fearing a massive flow of drug tourists heading south, America has avoided direct condemnation of the bill.
The new Mexican bill closes legal loopholes that have allowed drug users to be prosecuted while dealers walk free.
It will allow local judges and the police to decide whether a person should be prosecuted.
Even those caught with small amounts of drugs, legal under the new law, will have to go before a judge, prove they are addicts and seek treatment.
The sale of drugs or their use in public would still be illegal.
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
Good. Now maybe they'll go back.
LOL, what do you think they carry with them when they enter?
This will become a huge disaster, increasing illicit traffic across the border dramatically.
Pay attention, libertarians: Mexico will be uninhabitable within a few years.
That loud crash you just heard was the Libertarians jumping to the other side of the immigration debate...
::lighten up everyone, it's a joke::
The regime, likely to be one of the most liberal in the world, is designed to avoid clogging prisons with drug addicts, allowing police to go after big-time dealers.
This makes plenty of sense. Maybe on the next reform they can legalize small amounts of rape and murder which will free up the el copo's to go after the big-time rapists and serial and mass murderers.
So Mexico today is a peaceful and successful nation with all its drug laws?
"Next stop: MEXICO, mannnnnnnnnnnnnnn -- !"
This should be done not only to prevent the importation of drugs but also the immigration of terrorists and their weapons and potential weapons.
I thought it already was?
If it were inhabitable now, we wouldn't have an illegal immigration problem!
"Mmmmmmmmmmm MMMMMMMMMMM! I am lovin' me some MEXICO, baybay -- !"
I dont believe in filling jails with drug addicts either. I am in favor of having police make anyone caught with drugs eat whatever drugs they are caught with and then going home.
I've got a little secret..when it comes to Mexico this thing is a big joke.
Enough for first and last month and security deposit. Mexico's head start program.
No, but at least it's habitable and visitable.
Rape and murder violate rights; drug use does not.
As Know Your Rights has already said, peoples rights arent violated by responsible personal drug use.
The "drug use is equal to murder" argument is beyond all common sense and logic.
Fox vetoed this Libertarian/Drug Lords bill of possession rights.
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