"notbob" > wrote in message
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> 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.


So, a little bit of cocain is OK? Just a tad of heroin? I can agree on
the weed, but the others are not and never should be made legal. I agree
that the law should be going after the dealers and importers, but saying it
is OK for users to posess some is a way for dealers to just spread out the
inventory.


>
> 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.

Yes, I agree here.


>
> 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.

Agree on the prison system, but I'm not sure what you mean by breaking the
drug cartels. Sell drugs legally in some manner?


>
> 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?

We'll never eliminate the problem of drugs, but perhaps it can be lessened
some. What I have a problem with is making drugs like heroin readily
available to anyone with a $5 bill. It is an addictive drug, not a
recreational toot once a month or so to relax on Saturday night. Selling
over the counter cheaply can start a whole generation of users that just
wanted to give it a test drive.

I don't know the answer but going after the top should be more of a priority
that going after the street user. Education programs seem to be rather
ineffective also.