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| Mexican Pot Plans Go Up In A Puff Of Smoke | |
| 2012-11-10 | |
2 states' votes change the rules
Luis Videgaray, former general coordinator of Mr. Pena Nieto's presidential campaign this year and now head of the transition team, told Radio Formula 970 in Mexico City that the new administration has consistently opposed the legalization of drugs, and the Colorado and Washington votes conflict with his government's long-standing and costly efforts to eradicate the cultivation and smuggling of marijuana. "These important modifications change somewhat the rules of the game in the relationship with the United States," Mr. Videgaray said. "I think we have to carry out a review of our joint policies in regard to drug trafficking and security in general. "Obviously, we can't handle a product that is illegal in Mexico, trying to stop its transfer to the United States, when in the United States, at least in part of the United States, it now has a different status," he said. Mr. Videgaray is expected to play a significant role in the Pena Nieto administration. The president-elect, who will assume office Dec. 1, said in September that Mr. Videgaray would head the team that will set policy direction for the new government. More than 47,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence in Mexico since President Felipe Calderon began a military assault on violent narco mobs in 2006. Many of the dead have included Mexican military personnel and police. During his presidential campaign, Mr. Pena Nieto vowed to continue Mexico's fight against drug trafficking, although he said he would revise strategies and work to reduce violence. Some U.S. policymakers have expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... s that his Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) had been known for allowing drug-trafficking cartels semiautonomous control of certain regions. The topic of legalized marijuana is sure to come up during Mr. Pena Nieto's planned Nov. 27 trip to the U.S., when he will visit the White House. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #10 A shoe box of pretty much anything is worth a lot more than a shoe box full of pot. I am restraining .5mt. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2012-11-10 18:51 |
| #9 The Rocky Mountain Way... |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2012-11-10 12:32 |
| #8 I suspect the narco-violence is more over turf than reefer. A shoe box of pretty much anything is worth a lot more than a shoe box full of pot. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2012-11-10 12:31 |
| #7 These Mexican officials' understanding of the problem is exactly backwards. They don't have massive violence, because they are succeeding at controlling growing and trafficking in pot. They have massive violence, because the the U.S. growers of pot are stealing their business in CA,CO, and now WA. Last year on vacation I passed a number of rural greenhouses growing the stuff for "medical" use. These poor Mexican drug dealers' customers are buying less and less and less; so, they have to downsize their business. And they are downsizing in the way they understand best, by shooting the opposition. At the rate we are going, soon all those small business people will all be dead or out of business, and California will be exporting corporately grown weed to them. |
| Posted by: rammer 2012-11-10 11:04 |
| #6 More potential democratic voters for the donks to harvest. Legally stoned ones at that. I can picture a stoned voter dealing with complex amendment issues on the ballot. Eenie, meanie, minie, moe, I'll select the one that's easiest to read or the one that just feels good. Or maybe they are provided with a cheat sheet of which alternatives or candidates to which to vote for free Maui Wowee or Acupalco Gold. Ah, what have we come to in this country? Just a rhetorical question. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2012-11-10 08:39 |
| #5 Being a narco and being a policeman are notmutually exclusive. |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2012-11-10 08:39 |
| #4 The topic of legalized marijuana is sure to come up during Mr. Pena Nieto's planned Nov. 27 trip to the U.S., when he will visit the White House. Don't forget the dealer samples. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-11-10 06:32 |
| #3 "will force the Mexican government to rethink its efforts at trying to halt marijuana smuggling across the southwestern border." We must do something about that border between Tijuana and Denver |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2012-11-10 05:20 |
| #2 More than 47,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence in Mexico since President Felipe Calderon began a military assault on violent narco mobs in 2006. Many of the dead have included Mexican military personnel and police. Musta pulled that "fact" out of the writer's ass. 90 percent of the dead in Mexico's drug war were narcos killed by other narcos. |
| Posted by: badanov 2012-11-10 03:39 |
| #1 I think we have to carry out a review of our joint policies (cue beavis & butthead laughter) hunh-hunh, hunh-hunh |
| Posted by: SteveS 2012-11-10 00:32 |