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Mexico Legalizes Drug Possession
NYT ^ | August 21, 2009 | AP

Posted on 08/21/2009 2:53:19 AM PDT by SolidWood

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico enacted a controversial law on Thursday decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs while encouraging government-financed treatment for drug dependency free of charge.

The law sets out maximum "personal use" amounts for drugs, also including LSD and methamphetamine. People detained with those quantities will no longer face criminal prosecution; the law goes into effect on Friday.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Mexico
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; cocaine; commonsense; drugcartels; drugs; drugtourism; drugtrafficking; givemeliberty; heroin; idiotalert; immigration; legalizeddrugs; lping; lsd; marijuana; meth; mexico; mrleroymovessouth; potheads; stuckonstupid; vivalarevolucion; wod
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To: SolidWood

Before all you ‘moral authoritarians’ go off the deep end, consider this.

Drug Decriminalization in Portugal:
Lessons for Creating Fair and Successful Drug Policies

“...more than seven years have now elapsed since enactment of Portugal’s decriminalization system, there are ample data enabling its effects to be assessed.

...none of the nightmare scenarios touted by preenactment decriminalization opponents — from rampant increases in drug usage among the young to the transformation of Lisbon into a haven for “drug tourists” — has occurred.”
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10080

Here’s the full 38 page report from the Cato Institute:
http://www.cato.org/pubs/wtpapers/greenwald_whitepaper.pdf


41 posted on 08/21/2009 7:42:01 AM PDT by camp_steveo
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To: mvpel

bfl. btw, great pics.


42 posted on 08/21/2009 7:45:42 AM PDT by MetaThought
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To: Dumpster Baby

Wow, what is that picture of?


43 posted on 08/21/2009 7:47:00 AM PDT by TheZMan ("I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.")
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To: SolidWood

Mexico, libertarian paradise.

Par for the course.


44 posted on 08/21/2009 7:47:55 AM PDT by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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To: SolidWood

UNREAL.
now just as in europe, they will lose a generation to drug abuse.

Instead of taking the battle head on and stopping it, they act like a parent who catches their kids smoking then just buy cigarettes for them


45 posted on 08/21/2009 7:50:48 AM PDT by Munz (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: SolidWood

“There’s just one thing left to do.”
“...Tijuana roadtrip!”


46 posted on 08/21/2009 7:52:12 AM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: lakertaker
Some say legalize drugs and tax the hell out of them to pay for gov. programs. The problem I have with that is for one it would then create the black market you are trying to eliminate due to high taxes.

Counterfeit [Michigan Cigarette] Tax Stamps

California Schemin': Cigarette Tax Evasion and Crime In the Golden State

47 posted on 08/21/2009 7:59:40 AM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: djf

...Maybe if Mexico starts taxing these drugs, they’ll get out of debt. Sh!t, they,re already stoned! Be too bad for the drug lords, they can do business, it just won’t be so lucrative...

...Look on the bright side. Maybe folks will stay, for what ever reasons. And, if yer so against druggies, maybe they’ll move south, and get out of the neighborhood...

...Should have been done long ago. I’m actually warming up to the idea myself...


48 posted on 08/21/2009 8:02:08 AM PDT by gargoyle (...My thoughts are not seditious, or treasonous, they're revolutionary...)
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To: Munz
Instead of taking the battle head on and stopping it, they act like a parent who catches their kids smoking then just buy cigarettes for them.

If the kid wants to smoke, he can find a lackadaisical convenience store owner and buy a pack of smokes, instead of having to descend into the underworld of violent mafia crime which controls the illegal drug trade.

If a convenience store owner sells smokes to underage kids too often, he can lose his license, thus creating a strong incentive NOT to sell the smokes to the kids, an incentive which the violent mafia drug dealers don't have.

Surveys have indicated that high schoolers find it much easier to buy pot than to buy tobacco or alcohol.

49 posted on 08/21/2009 8:03:20 AM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: Munz
Instead of taking the battle head on and stopping it, they act like a parent who catches their kids smoking then just buy cigarettes for them

"Taking the battle head on" thus far has meant acting like a parent who blows their kids brains out if they catch them smoking. Surely that's just as stupid as buying cigarettes for them, yes?

50 posted on 08/21/2009 8:05:51 AM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: SolidWood

It will be somehow subsidized by American taxpayers, be proclaimed by the Dems a great success, and become law here as well.


51 posted on 08/21/2009 8:11:19 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...Call 'em What you Will, They ALL have Fairies Living In Their Trees.)
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To: Loud Mime

Any entrepreneur could make a FORTUNE with this law being enacted. I am seriously tempted to go to Mexico, set up a garden to grow stuff, and then sell it.


52 posted on 08/21/2009 8:42:05 AM PDT by Niuhuru (The internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: kamikaze2000

I agree.


53 posted on 08/21/2009 8:45:55 AM PDT by SoDak (Molon Labe)
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To: SoDak

Party in Tijuana.


54 posted on 08/21/2009 8:47:01 AM PDT by Ravi
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To: Loud Mime

The WOD is unconstitutional and ineffective.

So called conservatives who complain and cry about the lack of liberty and freedom and then support restrictions on freedom and liberty (The WOD) are clueless hypocrites.

You cant have it both ways.


55 posted on 08/21/2009 8:47:04 AM PDT by 08bil98z24 (WOD + Law Enforcement = Govt Revenue $$$ = BS)
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To: SolidWood

Good start. Mexico gets one right.


56 posted on 08/21/2009 8:47:36 AM PDT by nufsed (Release the birth certificate, passport, and school records.)
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To: SkyPilot
It has already begun, and this is surrender.

Supporters of the WOD surrendered liberty and freedom years ago.

57 posted on 08/21/2009 8:48:42 AM PDT by 08bil98z24 (WOD + Law Enforcement = Govt Revenue $$$ = BS)
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To: mysterio

Agreed. Spot on.

WOD is a joke.


58 posted on 08/21/2009 8:49:15 AM PDT by 08bil98z24 (WOD + Law Enforcement = Govt Revenue $$$ = BS)
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To: Gay State Conservative

LSD is not cocaine , nor is it realted in anyway to cocaine.

Half of all Americans have used drugs at some point in their life.


59 posted on 08/21/2009 8:51:05 AM PDT by 08bil98z24 (WOD + Law Enforcement = Govt Revenue $$$ = BS)
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To: mvpel

so you think that this was actually a good idea I take it?


60 posted on 08/21/2009 8:51:08 AM PDT by Munz (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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