Posted on 10/29/2010 12:55:47 PM PDT by calcowgirl
MEXICO CITY — Sounds like former President Vicente Fox wishes he could vote in California.
Twice on Wednesday, Fox took to the airwaves to encourage Californians Nov. 2 to approve Proposition 19, the ballot initiative to legalize the commercial cultivation and sale of marijuana.
“How great it would be for California to set this example. May God let it pass,” Fox told the W radio network in Mexico. “The other U.S. states will have to follow step.”
If California legalizes marijuana, it may help Mexican peasant farmers, and boost Mexico's exports, he added.
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He just wants to make his largest export legal.
He also “backs” illegal immigration into America. However, he does not “back” illegal immigration into Mexico.
Can you imagine the outrage in Mexico, with its terminal inferiority complex, if we interfered in their elections? Fox and Calderone should have run their own country better instead of sticking their noses in our affairs.
I don't have a problem with that. Its a weed, and it if its legal, the price should drop 10X to 100X (I don't know the specific economics, but if its a weed, it ought to be cheap).
I, for one, like the idea of cratering the profit margins of the scum that sell this stuff.
“Such a move would be “a step toward saying to the peasant, ‘You can grow marijuana legally and export it,’ ” Fox said.”
Most, if not all, of the marijuana sold in the California “clinics” is grown indoors in California. I have been told that Mexican pot is low quality. We don’t need no stinking Mexican marijuana. California pot heads buy American product.
Ya mean there’s something that I agree with Fox about???
If California legalizes marijuana, it may help Mexican peasant farmers, and boost Mexico’s exports, he added.
Yeah!...Great!...And it may also contribute to the death of teenagers driving around whacked out on booze and bud....You f’ing giant A-hole!
“Que tal, amigo! Yo soy Vicente Fox. Alto, alto! Don’t Bogart that joint, amigo, pass it over to me. Bueno.”
HEY BUDDY GET OUT OF OUR ELECTIONS. (Have to speak loudly because he is kind of far away and I need him to hear me).
It sure beats growing FOOD for the Mexican people.
and taxable for him as an export.
Doesn’t that happen now, all over the country? It would probably be safer to outlaw alcohol rather than pot.
You mean you (like Fox) want to bring the drugs and violence of the cartels into the US?
Gee. How very liberal of you.
Bambi is definitely in favor of legalization of marijuana, but one of the things I have never understood is why they think people who have been making a fortune are suddenly going to (a) accept government regulation and taxes; and (b)stop selling the real money-makers (cocaine, etc.). Also, if it’s legalized, the motorcycle gang pot growers up in the foothills of the Sierra will strike paydirt, but I don’t think this is going to extend to Mexicans.
Hey Fox, STFU and worry about your own stinkin country!!
The US needs to unmexican.
I would imagine that if legalized, the authorities would go after those criminals that are black-marketing the stuff and avoiding the taxes, not the legal users like they do now. If people can grow their own, or buy it from ABC type stores or mom&pop suppliers, then those people making the fortunes now and the gangs, won’t have a market.
Above all he is probably doing this because the drug gangs have threatened him and his family...or...he’s just taking the usual kickbacks from the drug lords as he did while presidente...or...both.
I think the violence related to drug cartels would be reduced because no one would have to buy from them. There isn’t much violence related to alcohol sales now, is there?
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