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post #1 of 10
8/24/09 at 8:37pm
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Interesting

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/wo.../21mexico.html

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Mexico Legalizes Drug Possession
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Published: August 21, 2009
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.

Anyone caught with drug amounts under the personal-use limit will be encouraged to seek treatment, and for those caught a third time treatment is mandatory — although no penalties for noncompliance are specified.

Mexican authorities said the change only recognized the longstanding practice here of not prosecuting people caught with small amounts of drugs.

The maximum amount of marijuana considered to be for “personal use” under the new law is 5 grams — the equivalent of about four marijuana cigarettes. Other limits are half a gram of cocaine, 50 milligrams of heroin, 40 milligrams for methamphetamine and 0.015 milligrams of LSD.

President Felipe Calderón waited months before approving the law.
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post #2 of 10
8/24/09 at 8:44pm
We might do the same thing tomorrow.
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post #3 of 10
8/24/09 at 9:15pm
Huh. Interesting. I look forward to seeing how this works, and more importantly, how the cartels react. On the same sentence, is this a reaction to the massive drug wars going on down there?

If this has positive effects, I dread the stoners who are going to trot this out as an example for legalization. I swear I want pot legal just to see what they'd complain about afterwards.
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post #4 of 10
8/24/09 at 9:20pm
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If this has positive effects, I dread the stoners who are going to trot this out as an example for legalization.
If it has positive effects, maybe the stoners have a point.
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post #5 of 10
8/24/09 at 9:23pm
a step in the right direction..
but, are we here in the US going to keep up this insane unconstitutional prohibition on the greatest plant of all time (the marijuana plant) and its botanical buddies? keep it up to teh point where we're funding a cartel backed afghanistan style fiasco right on our own border? 'america first' indeed, mr conservative straw-man-in-my-argument.
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post #6 of 10
8/24/09 at 9:25pm
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a step in the right direction..
but, are we here in the US going to keep up this insane unconstitutional prohibition on the greatest plant of all time (the marijuana plant) and its botanical buddies? keep it up to teh point where we're funding a cartel backed afghanistan style fiasco right on our own border? 'america first' indeed, mr conservative straw-man-in-my-argument.
We will continue with it, regardless of changing public mores and despite decade after decade of expensive failures, so long as money from prison guard unions, police officer unions, pharmaceutical companies, hemp competitors (cotton industry, etc.), and puritan assholes keep pouring into the coffers of legislators.

You will all rest easier when you stop pretending there is any pretense of public debate or intellectual honesty about issues such as this, and simply go on about your lives accepting that the system is rigged.
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post #7 of 10
8/24/09 at 9:36pm
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We will continue with it, regardless of chaning public mores and despite decade after decade of expensive failures, so long as money from prison guard unions, police officer unions, pharmaceutical companies, hemp competitors (cotton industry, etc.), and puritan assholes keep pouring into the coffers of legislators.

You will all rest easier when you stop pretending there is any pretense of public debate or intellectual honesty about issues such as this, and simply go on about your lives accepting that the system is rigged.
i know, but i am perfectly happy for there to be a marijuana lobby. i'd LOVE 'Big Marijuana' to be bribing some congressmen. I'd definitely be all for that. there is money to be made, i dont get why all the greedy assholes simply say "whoa, cotton people are against it! i better back off and leave the big bucks to the college students who deal! in my brooks brothers suit i'm no match for them!"



If you note my location indicator thingy, you'll see I refer to massachusetts as "the greatest state in the union". people in california do not have freedom with weed. you may have ready access to it, but you all break the law to do it for the most part and lie about phony ailments to get prescriptions, rather than own up and say "yes, i like to smoke it recreationally and should be allowed to do so".

in massachusetts, less than an OZ is decriminalized. our cops fought and whined about it, but they lost to the will of the massachusetts population. they dont even give out tickets most of the time, because THEY HAVE NOT HAD TICKETS FOR THE 'OFFENSE' PRINTED YET.
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post #8 of 10
8/25/09 at 2:21pm
Well, our supreme court just ruled minutes ago that it is is illegal to penalize adults for owning or consuming small amounts of marijuana if they are not posing any harm to others or minors.
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post #9 of 10
8/25/09 at 2:27pm
Good for Mexico. It's just a pity that the situation had to escalate into open warfare before they decided a changed approach was necessary.
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post #10 of 10
8/25/09 at 2:28pm
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Well, our supreme court just ruled minutes ago that it is is illegal to penalize adults for owning or consuming small amounts of marijuana if they are not posing any harm to others or minors.
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