Latin American Countries Move To Decriminalize Marijuana, Drugs

globalpost.com:

MEXICO CITY, Mexico -- After carefully packing light green Mexican marijuana into a homemade water pipe, university student Salvador Chavez drew a deep breath from the tube and blew the smoke out of the window of his modest family home.

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Comments

[RevBookburn]

Now we're even behind Latin America regarding the 'drug war.' In our costly stupidity of wasting billion$ and ruining countless lives, the world surpasses us and develops more sensible policies. Hysteria groups still have too much influence.

[research]

End the war on Pot smoking anti war Hippies that Nixon and JEHoover started.

The USA has more political prisoners of the war on anti war hippies, that any other countries has total inmates.

[davidwayneosedach]

What's next? The US will watch and see how it pans out.

[Nunnya]

Hash anyone?

[ResidualSelfImage]

Who has decriminalized Opium?
Il vacation there.

[fbr79]

I think they should indeed decriminalize marijuana all over Latin America, and then start a mass campaign encouraging all the annoying potheads in America to move south. Sorry, I grew up with a pot smoking father, and I'm still to meet a habitual smoker who is not selfish, childish and much less enlightened than they would like to think.

[RoloTomassi]

And yet after all of your lifetime effort to gain enlightenment, you remain a judgmental mo.r.on....

[JessWonderin]

good point . . . I would not miss this one if he/she wandered off either . . . . lawd knows we have enough Republicans here already . . . .

[winningticket]

Nice of you to trash your own father by scoring cheap points.

[rocketman69]

Legalize Coke Now!!

[sonoffestus]

Tourism will be much higher, so to speak.

[MosheDayanHero]

Most of the people posting here seem to unable to understand that de-criminalization is for individual users only. Drug dealing, especially on the large scale is still illegal.

For instance in Am-dam, Holland, large dealers are vigorously prosecuted and arrested.

[PWM]

Same in Canada. Personal possession is one thing, but if you sell it you can get into some serious trouble.

[rocketman69]

If it's legal, how can there be large dealers at all? I thought that was the point of decriminalizing it in the first place.

[RoloTomassi]

Decriminalizing drugs and LEGALIZING drugs are NOT the same thing....

[HekmabaJuzimax]

I say legalize recreational drug dealing. Then tax it. Go after the dealers who don't pay the tax, because they will definitely pass it on to the consumer. Everybody wins.

[winningticket]

I want to add that Calvina Fay is a prostitute for the Drug Warrior industry.

[onalimb]

Right!
Decriminalization - legalization is a job security threat to many reaping the rewards of the never ending so called war on drugs.

[winningticket]

Good for Latin America! Take a lesson US!

[Kamenskiy]

Of course the Latin American countries want to decriminalize pot; they are the ones that have to deal with the drug cartels! The US apparently does not have enough motivation; it seems that overflowing prisons, colossal waste of taxpayer money and less-organized drug-related gang activity isn't sufficient.

[Bcasey11]

pots don't go no where, drugs have been an spiritual inspiration for all of human history, many spiritual people adults started with marijuana and mushrooms and saw that there was something to it. The drug war is straight up immoral, it erodes civil liberties, and a big lobby for the drug war, IS THE DRUG CARTELS, you can make more money if its illegal.

[HekmabaJuzimax]

You can have legalized drugs without the cartels. It's just a matter of toning down the greed factor.

[MsMcgee]

I was a bumper sticker once that said, “Drugs may be the road to nowhere, but at least it’s the scenic route.”

[HekmabaJuzimax]

Guess what, when weDie, we'll be treated to a ten minute show courtesy of the chemicals manufactured in our brains. Then, your last thought will be "IS THAT IT?"

[Macready]

finally common sense prevails . . . . legalisation will help the economy