In article >,
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/...bAUY1lLDdqc4vA
> D9A70MDO0
>
> 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?

Don't know about the rest of the US, but in California, you get a
prescription from your doctor. There were problems, since the DEA
didn't recognize this as legal. Once Obama took office, I believe he
told them to back off. I understand that some of these "prescriptions"
were for 1 1/2 pounds.

I believe that north of me, marijuana is the number two cash crop behind
lumber.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA