Do my eyes deceive me. Has Mexico had a law enforcement epiphany that
will rock North America?

"Mexico decriminalizes small-scale drug possession"

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...qc4vAD9A70MDO0

I don't know where to begin. This is MONUMENTAL. Why hasn't this
been major US news, for days, not meerely a bleep on Google, vastly
underplayed? I'm stunned.

I can see why Mexico would do this. They no longer have time to deal
with the lowly street user. They are in a fight for their very
national existence against the huge drug cartels, which threaten,
literally, to overwhelm the govt.

Unfortunately, until the US does the same thing, the drug cartels will
continue to prosper and grow. It's US drug use that fuels them, not
some campesino leading a donkey and puffing a doob. We ARE the
problem, make no mistake.

We desperately need the same reform here. Not only to break the back
of the drug cartels, but to put a stop to what has become a GROWTH
INDUSTRY! in this coutnry, namely, prisons. I believe in capitalism,
sure, but making the detention of its own citizens a profitable
business is beyond abhorent. It's the beginning of the end.

It will be interesting to see where this leads. Is it a social
experiment to see new possibilities or just a desperate survival
tactic? Will the US even consider this revolutionary approach or has
the law enforcement industry too tight a strangle hold.

What say ye all?

nb