Mexico to legalize drugs, Measure decriminalizes personal use

[A CA Guy]

¡Silbido de bala Libertarian!

[Question Liberal Authority]

Mexico has LAWS?

[Southack]

"Some of the amounts are eye-popping: Mexicans would be allowed to possess more than two pounds of peyote, the button-sized hallucinogenic cactus used in some native Indian religious ceremonies."

People just thought that Natalie Holloway had it rough in Aruba...now Mexico's beach parties are going to have peyote-charged drinks for the bikini-wearing coeds on Spring Break!

[John Geyer]

The laws only apply to those who can't afford to pay off the police.

[ByDesign]

"If Fox signs the measure and it becomes law, it could strain the two countries' cooperation in anti-drug efforts – and increase the vast numbers of vacationing students who visit Mexico."

Ya THINK!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

[Dr. Marten]

If the US government had any brains, it would do the same thing.

[Mojave]

¡Ningunas fronteras, drogas legalizadas!

[NewRomeTacitus]

I read that the peyote cactus is near extinction because of druggies over-harvesting the buttons that harbor the concentrated hallucinogen and seed. Mexico has no regard for it's natural resources (from the standpoint that we know far too little about the qualities of rare botany that's being killed off for the sake of expansion without study/preservation).

[NewRomeTacitus]

So two pounds of buttons represents hundreds of acres of de-seeded cacti that take around twenty years to produce a seed set. Mexico effectively okayed the killing off of this species for the sake of short term profit for those dealing the buttons.

Compare that to our government that regularly encroaches on private properties and businesses to "protect" species that are often misidentified, more numerous than known or are just plain pests.

[zarf]

Finally,I agree with Mexico!

[Adrastus]

Legalize everything, then the crime rate will go down and we can all live in serenity and peace.....Pendejos are in most of the worlds governments. They seem to have concentrated south of the border.

[putupjob]

Oh Great. Now the Mexicano Crimealiens will be here insisting that the drug laws of the United States do not apply to them since no laws of the United States apply to them.

[jec41]

Good news, all of San Francisco will immigrate to Mexico. Mexico will have to build a fence!!!!!

[Steve Van Doorn]

NAFTA or War on drugs... which will fall first?

[Rokke]

LOL. Now all the libertarian's bitching about Mexico are going to want to move there. I'll tell you what, those Mexicans really understand how to limit the influence of the gubmint.

[x1stcav]

This could mean that we would have our own emmigration program. I wonder how many of our habitual drug users will move there. Could be a silver lining here.

[Northern Alliance]

If it applies to foreigners then Mexico will go through what Switzerland did a few decades ago when they stopped enforcing heroin laws. There will be junkies everywhere - they'll come from all over. They'll be flooded with them.

Maybe it'll actually be a good thing for the US and even Canada - draw all the heavy dopers down to Mexico.

[ovrtaxt]

Hmmmm. Did they also change the acceptable bribe limits for local officials and policia?

This i sno big deal- the laws in Mexico mean NOTHING. They'll arrest you for whatever they feel like, if the cops want some 'walking around money'.

[ovrtaxt]

I don't see any complaining about open borders from the official LP- they don't believe in borders anyway.

One of a few reasons why I don't officially support those clowns, although I do hold some libertarian principles.