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| Caribbean-Latin America | |
| Mexico President Refuses to Sign Drug Bill | |
| 2006-05-04 | |
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #11 I think all life sentence/no possibility of parole prisoners should be segregated and given all the marijuana they want to smoke. It would solve several problems at the same time. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-05-04 17:25 |
| #10 Gee, I wonder if someone in the Bush administration gave ole' Vicente a polite nudge.... I ain't sayin, I'm just sayin... |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2006-05-04 13:14 |
| #9 like you cant already get a grocery bag full of weed for a few pesos, surfs up. |
| Posted by: bk 2006-05-04 11:30 |
| #8 Legalization would probably cut into his black market and underworld profit margin Shooting drug users would cause demand and prices to crumble thus reducing underworld profit margin zo zero. |
| Posted by: JFM 2006-05-04 10:12 |
| #7 Legalization would probably cut into his black market and underworld profit margin. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-05-04 08:52 |
| #6 What's it take to override? Where do we send our |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-05-04 08:34 |
| #5 Something is so wrong here. Citizens of the US are willing to leave the US to do things the US government doesn't want them to do. So the US puts pressure on other countries to prevent US citizens from doing those things outside the US. In a weird way, that is like Saudi demanding that the US enforce Sharia on Moslems living in the US. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-05-04 08:31 |
| #4 "Bummer! Vincente is, like, harshing my mellow." |
| Posted by: Mike 2006-05-04 06:20 |
| #3 "W" warned him, he would close the border, over this one! |
| Posted by: smn 2006-05-04 05:58 |
| #2 Must have run out of rolling papers... |
| Posted by: Danking70 2006-05-04 01:50 |
| #1 "Under the law, consumers could have legally possessed up to 25 milligrams of heroin, a half a gram of cocaine and about one-fifth of an ounce of marijuana." It would not necessarily be drug-tourism to be worried about. Financial Times estimated that there are approximately 500,000 border crossings per year. Either through incentive or coercion, supply a significant percentage of crossers with 25mg of heroin or 0.5g of cocaine, or both. Under the proposed law, Mexican police would not bother. Collect the material from the crossers once they are over the border. |
| Posted by: Fordesque 2006-05-04 01:41 |