August 24, 2009

About time for a trip to Mazatlan?

Mexico just legalized the personal use of drugs. No, I'm totally not making this up...

On Thursday, the Mexican President signed into law a controversial piece of legislation that decriminalizes possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin, LSD and methamphetamine and yet at the same time promotes drug dependency treatments funded entirely by the government.

The law sets limits on how much citizens can possess for “personal use.” When caught in first and second offenses, those citizens possessing within limits, will be encouraged to enter a treatment program and those caught a third time must enter a program.

The “personal use” maximum under the new law is 5 grams, about four joints. Other threshold amounts are: Cocaine - one half a gram, heroin - 50 milligrams, methamphetamine – 40 milligrams, and 0.015 milligrams of acid (LSD).

The question of legalization is one that has been debated since the dawn of civilization. The argument to legalize drugs is a sincerely difficult one to win, and one with many very famous supporters. Authors such as, Timothy Leary, Lewis Armstrong, Jules Vern, Robert Lewis Stevenson, Aldous Huxley, Sir Walter Scott and Terence McKenna believed what persons do in private should not be regulated by the government.

William F. Buckley Jr. argued supremely that, “If all our laws were paradigmatic, imagine what we would do to anyone caught lighting a cigarette, or drinking a beer. Or exulting in life, in the paradigm, committing adultery. Send them all to Guantanamo?” Buckley’s argument was one of consistency, legal and exampled reality, illustrated by several countries around the world.

Exactly what are we waiting for? Our Partner in the War on Drugs just basically said 'Fuck it, let's have a beer and go to the beach' and we're STILL arguing? The War on Drugs has always been futile and nothing paints that picture more clearly than Mexico doing what we should have done in 1980. We've wasted more than a trillion dollars fighting this war and incarcerating combatants.

Let's be done with it as well.

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February 21, 2009

BREAKING : Please let it be Dick Morris

DC Police say they are close to making an arrest for the murder of Chandra Levy in 2001.

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January 09, 2009

Doctor cleared from organ harvesting charges

This story kinda creeped me out. And yes, I'm an organ donor mostly because when they open me up to take something they are going to be hella disappointed.

Especially if they needed a liver.

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December 15, 2008

No, you can't look at my laptop

More than two years ago we talked about unreasonable searches being performed at the ports of entry into the United States. It turns out, that's all about to change. Finally.

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August 17, 2008

Officer who cooked his partner not guilty

WTF is with you people in Maricopa County, AZ?!?!?!

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February 13, 2008

Congress "Investigates" Baseball, Ignores Roger Clemens' Role In 9/11

Another freaking whitewash. Why did we elect these guys again?

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November 10, 2007

And now, it's our problem...

The Zetas, the enforcement arm of Mexico's Gulf Cartel, isn't satisfied with just being able to kill, at will, in Mexico. They are developing that ability here as well, according to Grits.

Those who consider violence by drug cartels a Mexican problem will want to read this Dallas News story ("American youths doing drug cartels dirty work," Nov. 10) describing how Los Zetas - a group of former US-trained Mexican military commandos who defected to join the Gulf Cartel as enforcers - hire and train youth as young as 13 to commit murders and perform cartel business on the Texas side of the border. Much of the public information about this shadowy network comes from the prosecution of Rosalio Reta, one of the teenage "Zetillas" prosecuted this summer for murders in Laredo on the US side.

Clearly, law enforcement is doing it's level best here in the states to keep up with well funded and well armed thugs. However, as long as we continue this ridiculous war on drugs (which has, effectively, been a 30+ year failure) the best we can hope for is for law enforcement to keep them in check. The reality is that the only thing working for us is the greed of the cartel. If they were willing to make a real investment infrastructure and personnel, they'd be a VERY serious threat to the peace.

Legalize. Cut them off at the knees and be done with it.

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