notbob wrote:
> 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
>
>
> 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.

>
> What say ye all?



Are you advocating drug use but not the sale of it? Doesn't make sense.

If drug use/dealing is bad (yes, it is) why make it legal at any level?
That's pretty hypocritical. I can see overlooking the user in favor of
cracking down on the dealers who are profiting mightily, but if we could
ever get the dealing eliminated, what then for the users?

If there were no users, dealers would of out of business. If there were
no dealers, then what, cold turkey for all the users you have enabled?

gloria p