Vincente Fox on Mexico Violence: US's addiction to drugs to blame

KGNS ^ | Jan 21, 2010

[SatinDoll]

“...hanging drug suppliers AND users - Never gonna happen. You live in a fantasy world.”

Never say never. Who would have ever thought we would have a Muslim left-wing radical for a President!

“Since alcohol is much more dangerous than pot, maybe we can hang all the alcohol drinkers too.”

My sister has used pot since age 13. She has also used heroin and LSD, but pot is her daily fix. Forty years later she has huge ‘holes’ in areas of her brain, where there is no brain function at all. Since she is now in constant pain due to fibromyalgia, she is on morphine - all paid with your tax dollars. She is not, nor has she ever been, an habitual imbiber of adult beverages except for an occasional beer. I have a glass of wine with my evening meal every day and haven’t the problems she has developed.

I expect the government to maintain order in our society. The fabric of our nation will go to hell if drugs are legalized.

[MaxMax]

Can we blame Mexico for being addicted to American money?

[Molon Labbie]

How about we do what we should have done from the very start of the war on drugs.

Make drug dealing a life offense. Instead, for the last thirty years, we hand out probation. Over and over and over...

We can reduce demand just as easily if you can’t find a seller.

[microgood]

Evertime drugs are mentioned on Free Republic, people like you pop up to promote legalizing its use. That, and you always equate it with adult beverages.

I equate pot with adult beverages, not all drugs. There are between 20 and 30 million regular pot smokers in this country. 95 percent of them work and live normal lives. I am not advocating legalizing the harder drugs but if you want to solve 90% of the problems in Mexico and with drugs, legalize pot. Then you are down to the 1 or 2 percent of the population who use the harder drugs, which is much more manageable.

I actually think legalizing pot would make it harder to get the other drugs because so many of the underground supply channels would go away, since 90% of the illegal drug use is pot.

Unfortunately the drug war is driven by ideology, not rational thought.

[microgood]

My sister has used pot since age 13. She has also used heroin and LSD, but pot is her daily fix. Forty years later she has huge ‘holes’ in areas of her brain, where there is no brain function at all. Since she is now in constant pain due to fibromyalgia, she is on morphine - all paid with your tax dollars. She is not, nor has she ever been, an habitual imbiber of adult beverages except for an occasional beer. I have a glass of wine with my evening meal every day and haven’t the problems she has developed.

Well I have a sister that is an alcoholic and believe me, I would much rather that she smoke pot. In fact, my extended family has a lot of people with alcohol problems. So I guess it is your frame of reference to some extent that forms your perception.

I expect the government to maintain order in our society. The fabric of our nation will go to hell if drugs are legalized.

Our Founding Fathers grew pot. It was not illegal until the 1900s and there was no breakdown of society. I think this societal breakdown idea is purely propaganda.

It reminds of when they implemented drug testing in this nation. There were no planes falling out of the sky or trucks driving off freeways, but the government was able to create a huge perception that unless we drug tested everyone, we would all die. The whole thing was based on lies, but now we have lost a huge chunk of the 4th Amendment to the constitution. Now I would agree that those who brought us drug testing and took away our consitutional rights should definitely be given the death penalty.

[microgood]

Make drug dealing a life offense. Instead, for the last thirty years, we hand out probation. Over and over and over...

We had a Senator named Dan Burton who advocated the death penalty for drug dealers. His son was busted in Louisiana with several pounds of pot. Then, while awaiting trial, he was caught in the Midwest growing pot in his apartment. All charges were dropped, which is strange since his dad thought he should get the death penalty.

Like alchohol prohibition and the current drug war, how you are treated depends on who you are.