Mexico's Fox balks at signing drug law
Could we just stay the fuck out of other countries domestic affairs? And if we are going to stick our nose in, why not address real problems, like Mexico's woefully backwards attitudes about rape? But raping and killing are ok, as long as you aren't carrying a couple of ounces of pot.
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Or kidnapping.
You can also have a teaspoon of heroin and two pounds of peyote.
And people are freaking out about American kids going down there and getting fucked up. As if it could get any worse than drinking tequila straight from the bottle for three dollars, then throwing up in the gutter and waking up bleeding and missing one's credit cards. Umm, hello, SDSU students have been doing that for years.
As if it could get any worse than drinking tequila straight from the bottle for three dollars, then throwing up in the gutter and waking up bleeding and missing one's credit cards.
LOL.
As for butting in to other countries' affairs, we Canadians have a gripe there too.
Actually our gov't is trying to block a piece of legislation in Mexico. And it's not about bad guys, it's about decriminalizing posession of small amounts of certain drugs so that the Mexican police can focus on enforcement of more important things. Of course, if they really cared about the drug problem, they would legalize drugs and spend all of the money currently wasted on enforcement to prevent and treat drug addiction.
Well, if you want to talk about reality. First of all I think you're ridiculously wrong In your general impression of drug addicts, sure a lot of them are probably exactly as you describe, but not all of them are. Also, notalldrug users are addicts, and I think there are plenty of drug users, particularly pot smokers, who are perfectly functional. And anyway, isn't breaking into your home and taking your stuff already against the law? So punish them if they do that, and if they're not doing that, then they're not the people you describe. But back to your point about reality. In reality, how many people are deterred by our current drug laws (or Mexico's)? Sure doesn't seem like many. Education would be much more effective if you ask me.
Rush Limbaugh is a dick, whether he's on drugs or not.
I don't know if Kennedy will be or has been charged with anything, and I don't know too much about the specifics. From what little I do know,I think he should be charged with something. I also think he should resign from Congress. However, comparing Rush Limbaugh's case with Kennedy's is a little ridiculous, they're not alike in any way, except that both guys used drugs.
I have to start looking at these older comment threads more often.
I second what John said. And another thing - drugs cost a lot because they're illegal. Even if most drug users were breaking into houses to get their drug money (which I don't concede), they wouldn't need to if drugs were legal. Or am just missing all the alcoholics who keep stealing and pawning my stuff? Berke Breathed had a running gag in Bloom County about the drug cartels support for drug laws, or as they called them, price supports. But there's a larger principle here. The government has no right to tell people what they can and can't put into their bodies. What they can do is criminalize behavior as it relates to their interactions with other people. Our government, and really all governments, claim the right to do things simply because they have the power to do so.
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