At last, someone was talking sense about drugs. Mexico was going to decriminalize them.
A law passed by the Mexican Congress would have eliminated criminal penalties for possession of small amounts of heroin, methamphetamines and PCP, as well as marijuana and cocaine.
But under pressure from the United States, which has an absolutely insane anti-drug policy, Mexican President Vicente Fox refused to sign it.
The US ‘War on Drugs” has made a medical problem into a law enforcement problem. The “war” costs billions of dollars, puts hundreds of thousands of people, mostly blacks and minorities, of course, in prison, and has resulted in the destruction of the Bill of Rights.
The US couldn’t have a border country, treating drugs sanely. It would make us look bad.
Posted by Deck at May 3, 2006 10:37 PM