Mexico's new drug laws?
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Where did this false info came from?? i do not understand. The Congress has not legalized drugs in México...!!!!\n\nNop. I am going to explain what happened exactly: In Mexico the possession for personal and imediate use of Drugs has been always legal. This was permited in the penal code. The Drugs issue is a federal issue according to the health law. Now, There is a huge problem with drug dealing in small amounts in discos, schools, etc... And because this is a federal issue, the local police can not fight this kind of small drug dealing. So, what the Congress of Mexico did is 1) open the possibility of concurrent faculties between federation and local governments to fight drug dealing and 2) to determine the exact amount of drug allowed for personal and immediate consum. The last is legal ONLY when it is proved that you are a Drug Adict and you have a medical prescription for the usage of the permited amount of Drugs. This means that NO. there was no legalization of Drugs in Mexico. Actually it was a reform to help the local governments fight small drug dealing and to sharpen the laws in order to avoid legal arguments for small drug dealing. I have already answered to this question somewhere else, and i had other info. But now i say i agree totally. And by the way, the persons that need drugs are sometimes also ex-soldiers or sick people (of cancer for example). that are drug adiccts because of pain killers. I find this human and correct.\nSo. Again. Do not state something with out knowing what is it about. In Mexican news there is no big issue about this theme...look Reforma, Televisa (esmas) or la Jornada.
516545
I think so. With our Southern States and their defective boarder patrol. Illegal drugs have been enough of a problem alone with the Mexican boarder anyway.
460393
Yes it will make a big impact on our youths and current drug users, now they can go to mexico and get these drugs that can cause serious harm to individuals. yes the president of Mexico is doing this on purpose due to immigration reform we are proposing. i see in the future some major trouble for both countries.
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Thru-out history drug laws have been a means of oppression towards ppl of different religions and customs. The 1st drug law in the US. was in san franscio in 1875 on opium dens in china town, and the fear of white ppl that this will cause chinese immigrants to rape white women. All drug laws started out of racism, not any concern over health or human welfare.\nRead about the history of drug laws at wikipedia link below. \n Currently 23% of US. prison population are non violent drug offenders.\n\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/drug_laws...
796868
lol - agreed!!\n\nI get my prescription drugs in Mexico now.. I can't afford the high price here. It's freaking ridiculous!
644097
Nooooo, until they take out the amnesty clause, I don't ever see it passing the house.  We can't reward criminals, otherwise the whole damn country of Mexico will hit the border and try to get in.
673804
Legalize/tax/regulate recreational drugs..pulls the profits out of the hands of the cartels, taxes pay for rehab and education, no more turf wars over who can sling rocks on a street corner.
646583
You are right, Mexico should be a powerful nation. It seems they don't have the will power to force change in the right places. When a country builds it's economy from the currency of another nation there economic base becomes very unstable. Every U.S. Dollar that goes into Mexico serves only to devalue the peso. It has become a catch 22 for them. They need a person who is strong enough to break the strangle hold the drug families have on that nation.
304566
I live on the border, the drug gangs are already here. The killings take place on a daily basis. I think Gov. Perry and Pres. Bush should be forced to move to Laredo. So they can get a clear view of exactly what is going on.
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Yes The DRUGS And The Immigrants Are Illegal
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I Think The Laws Are In Place For A Reason...\nTo Prevent Terrible Things To Happen To Our Nation\nThings Like THIS For Instance\n\nA close, personal friendship with President George W. Bush has given Mexicos President Vicente Fox the opportunity to purposely allow (or even send) Millions of Criminals, Thugs, Anarchists, and Potential Terrorists to swarm over our southern border in breathtaking numbers. (Nearly half of all illegal aliens currently living in the U.S. came here since Bush became president in 2000.) \n\nMexican American Legal Defense Fund founder Mario Obledo stated, “California is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who doesn't like it should leave. Every constitutional office in California is going to be held by Hispanics in the next 20 years. People who don't like such demographic changes “should go back to Europe.” \n(Incidentally, Senor Obledo was also the California Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Gov. Jerry Brown.) \nObledo Is A Member Of "MEChA" And "LA RAZA"\n\nThe newly "ELECTED"mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, joined the lawbreakers and proclaimed \n"This bill in Congress is wrong". "The only thing illegal is making 11 million illegal aliens felons." \nYeah, he Actually said that. People should make no mistake about it: Villaraigosa was "ELECTED" by ILLEGALs VOTING, and HIS Allegiance, along with the rest of these "ELECTED" public officials in California of Mexican ancestry is to Mexico, not California or these United States of America. Villaraigosa has spent a lifetime opposing U.S. immigration laws.\nVillaraigosa is A Member Of "MEChA" and " LA RAZA"\n\nMEChA and the La Raza movement teach that Colorado, California, Arizona, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Oregon and parts of Washington State make up an area known as "AZTLAN" -- a fictional ancestral homeland of the Aztecs before Europeans arrived in North America. As such, it belongs to the followers of MEChA. These are all areas America should surrender to "La Raza" once enough immigrants, legal or illegal, enter to claim a majority, as in Los Angeles. The current borders of the United States will be extinguished.\n\nThe Council of La Raza succeeded in having itself added to congressional hearings by Republican House and Senate leaders. And an anonymous senator even gave the Council of La Raza an extra $4 million in earmarked taxpayer money, supposedly for "housing reform," while La Raza continues to lobby the Senate for virtual open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens. \nhttp://www.humaneventsonline.com/article...\n\n"We have an aging white America ... They are dying ...The explosion is in our population . . . I love it. They are shitting in their pants with fear. I love it." \nWe have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him." \nJose Angel Gutierrez, professor, University of Texas, Arlington and founder of the La Raza Unida political party \n\nArt Torres, California Democratic Party chairman, at the Latino Summit In Response to Prop 187 at U.C. Riverside (Jan. 14, 1995): \n"Power is not given to you, you have to take it! People say to me when I was on the Senate floor, when I was in the Senate, why do you fight so hard for affirmative action programs. And I tell my white colleagues: because you're gonna need them. Remember, 187 is the last gasp of white America\n\nYou Can Hear These Words For Yourself Along With OTHER INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE Of A Conspiracy To Overthrow Our Nation \nhttp://tinyurl.com/pqzpe\n\nOther Members Of This Group Include\n\nAugustin Cebada, Brown Berets; \n"Go back to Boston! Go back to Plymouth Rock, Pilgrims! Get out! We are the future. You are old and tired. Go on. We have beaten you. Leave like beaten rats. You old white people. It is your duty to die . . Through love of having
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I agree with you.  Mexico has programs set up to assist their citizens in coming over the border.  If we cut off all assistance to their country I bet you'd see a different philosophy.  They have grown too accustomed to our dollars.  If we charged a percentage to those wiring money back to Mexico....you'd see changes.  If we tried to charge them for returning their nationals, I think you'd see mobbing in the streets.\n\nActually there are military in Mexico who protect the drug cartel that makes the runs between our countries.....and they are well armed and very dangerous.\n\nWe are dealing with people who want us to play by the "nice" rules while they do as they please....and apparently, get away with it.
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The 'Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005' was rolled into the 'USA PATRIOT Act Additional Reauthorizing Amendments Act of 2006'. \nIt is Title VII of that act. \nIt requires:\n    * Nationalize restrictions on retail sales by requiring ephedrine and pseudoephedrine products to be kept behind the counter or in a locked case; require purchasers to buy no more than 3.6 grams a day and 9 grams a month, show I.D. and sign a sales log, and require employees handling the products to be properly trained\n    * Toughen penalties against meth kingpins and smugglers and also meth cooks who endanger children or use federal property\n    * Step up the government's authority to monitor the flow of precursor chemicals from foreign manufacturers, including withholding aid to countries who are not fully cooperating with U.S. law enforcement\n    * Hold precursor chemical importers and exporters accountable if their product is diverted for illicit use\n    * Increase funding for assistance programs such as drug courts and those helping mothers or drug-endangered children\n    * Impose on manufacturers quotas for production and import of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine\n    * Pledge support to Mexico in its efforts to curb methamphetamine production \n\nIt was passed by Congress and signed by George Bush in March and will become effective Sept 31st.\n\nVERY patriotic.
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The drinking age is 18 in some places too!\n\nI have not heard of that new law.
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Yeah mexico is SOOO BAD even though they can LEGALY carry small ammounts of drugs on them like LSD and HEROINE.. But mexico is SUCH a horrible place to live yea right.. They all come to mooch and need to be shot.
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Drugs are not legal in Mexico even tho there are drugs in mexico. What is really amazing tho is that the same cops that will arrest a person in mexico for illegal drugs is also collecting big money from the ones selling the drugs. Prostitution is not legal either it is only allowed . in other words when the cops want to they can arrest someone for prostitution and when they have better things to do they could careless if they are doing it in the street in an alley some where .  Making drugs legal as in amsterdam would  stop alot of crime and lower everyones taxes since there wouldnt be so many people in jail and there would be less addicts since there wouldnt be such a want to be doing drugs. It would probably break hollywood since all the drug movies would be no big thing any more and then all the drug cartels would be a thing of the past and the drug runners would be out of work  along with  all the hit men and then the gov. wouldnt be making all the billions on the drug money they rake in doing drug busts. THe US is sadly built on crime and the criminal minded and the assurance that there will always be a fresh supply of new people to feed the kitty. Prostitution and drugs is to big of a business to allow it to go legal. Prostitutes and getting high has been around since the begining of time and will never stop this is why it is illegal because it provides constant guarunteed cash coming in for alot of people , the people that make the rules.    Heres proof as to what I am saying about the big guys.   The people of california voted and made marijuana legal but the  big guys said oh hell no we cant have that  we will loose to much money if that happens so even tho the people of california voted yes the federal gov. says no way .   ALl the police departments are given a budget by the big guys and if a police department makes a big big multi billion dollar bust with real estate and the whole 9 yards where does all that cash go.>? sure not to be spent by that police department. It goes to the federal gov. and they still only recieve thier budget. San diego makes billions in drug busts but yet all the cops are leaving the force to go other places because they wont get a raise for the next five years. You see the ones sitting behind a desk in office no way will give up all that cash they get to even share some with the ones who are in reality making it for them and protecting the country.  I say it would make things better but it will never happen.
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Just wait, it'll get better...my prediction is that more gangs etc. from Mexico will work on whittling away at america, bit by bit, through fun things like identity theft, maybe eventually they'll just have to cut the internet between the two countries...Mexico's bound and determined to get what they want, and they really don't have a lot of consideration for america/americans in the process of gaining that objective. Not very neighborly...