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]

11:40 PM on 10/22/2009

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]

05:43 PM on 10/22/2009

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]

01:11 PM on 10/22/2009

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

[Nunnya]

12:55 PM on 10/22/2009

Hash anyone?

[ResidualSelfImage]

12:14 PM on 10/22/2009

Who has decriminal­ized Opium?
Il vacation there.

[fbr79]

09:01 AM on 10/22/2009

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]

11:20 AM on 10/22/2009

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

[JessWonderin]

12:18 AM on 10/23/2009

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

[winningticket]

03:30 PM on 10/22/2009

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

[rocketman69]

06:39 AM on 10/22/2009

Legalize Coke Now!!

[sonoffestus]

10:10 PM on 10/21/2009

Tourism will be much higher, so to speak.

[MosheDayanHero]

12:10 PM on 10/21/2009

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]

05:28 PM on 10/21/2009

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

[rocketman69]

06:49 AM on 10/22/2009

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]

11:21 AM on 10/22/2009

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

[winningticket]

11:46 AM on 10/21/2009

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

[onalimb]

07:45 PM on 10/22/2009

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

[winningticket]

11:42 AM on 10/21/2009

Good for Latin America! Take a lesson US!

[Kamenskiy]

11:26 AM on 10/21/2009

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]

10:37 AM on 10/21/2009

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]

08:20 AM on 10/22/2009

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

[MsMcgee]

10:15 AM on 10/21/2009

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

[HekmabaJuzimax]

08:22 AM on 10/22/2009

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]

05:13 AM on 10/21/2009

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