Dave said...

>
> "hahabogus" > wrote in message
> 47...
>> Gloria P > wrote in
>> on Aug Sun 2009 pm
>>
>>> 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/...COzYSi8kbAUY1l
>>>> LDdqc4vAD9A70MDO0
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>
>>
>> If you legalize drugs, you then can enforce trade laws as to quality
>> and generate tax money from
>> it's sales. Those taxes would more than likely be greater the the cost
>> of the trade law enforcement.
>> Plus a great deal of money could be saved in prison costs. So making
>> things buyable at state run
>> 'drug' stores would seem to be a good idea.
>>
>
> They can't control the flow of drugs now, how will making them legal
> change anything?


Control... age old master/slave issue. Look at the US government's wasteful
cost of prohibition. They created a problem they could not solve.

Now take Nixon's DEA and the futile waste of taxpayer funds and tell me
they're worth their salt after 40 years.

If everyone could cultivate and NOT have to buy their drugs, wouldn't that
stop the smuggling/illicit drug trade???

The Indians can cultivate peyote. Why can't we?

Picture blocks of inner cities without drug pushers!

Andy