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Mexico Senate OKs bill to legalize drug possesion
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According to senior Harvard economics professor Jeffrey A. Miron, the only way to end the present drug violence in Mexico is to legalize drugs. What do you think? Please leave a comment… |
| Mexico Senate OKs bill to legalize drug possesion |
| Reuters | Apr 28, 2009 | |
| MEXICO CITY, April 28 (Reuters) – Mexico’s Senate approved a bill on Tuesday decriminalizing possession of small amounts of narcotics for personal use, in order to free resources to fight violent drug cartels.
The bill, proposed by conservative President Felipe Calderon, would make it legal to carry up to 5 grams (0.18 ounces) of marijuana, 500 milligrams (0.018 ounces) of cocaine and tiny quantities of other drugs such as heroin and methamphetamines. |
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Okies wakeup: Mexican cartels already in state
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| Okies wakeup: Mexican cartels already in state |
| Tulsa World | Apr 26, 2009 | By RON JACKSON NewsOK.com |
| Crossing a Mexican drug cartel usually comes with a price — death.
On the U.S.- Mexico border, that price is being paid daily with an endless stream of execution-style slayings in a war to control drug routes to the north. As Mexican officials crack down on these cartels, violence spreads. Lives are merely the cost of doing business, and since 2007 the international press has documented more than 7,400 drug war-related murders on the border. |
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Portugal’s drug decriminalization ‘bizarrely underappreciated’
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| Portugal’s drug decriminalization ‘bizarrely underappreciated’ |
| Raw Story | Apr 6, 2009 | Rachel Oswald |
| “None of the fears promulgated by opponents of Portuguese decriminalization has come to fruition, whereas many of the benefits predicted by drug policymakers from instituting a decriminalization regime have been realized,” read more |
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Obama’s Demented Drug Policy
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| President Barack Obama just says no to legalization of marijuana today (03.26.09) in his first Internet town hall meeting. (RON EDMONDS/AP) |
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| Daily Beast | Apr 19, 2009 | by Radley Balko |
| The best solution to what’s plaguing Mexico right now is the one topic that will almost assuredly be off the table: legalizing marijuana. read more |
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| he most popular question asked on whitehouse.gov was about the legalization of marijuana and the possible economic benefits of such legislation.
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| President Barack Obama spoke during an ‘open for questions’ town hall meeting on Thursday. Questions were submitted and voted on by citizens via the internet and answered live by the president.
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Private-sector Arms Sales to Mexico Sparsely Monitored by State Department
Private-sector Arms Sales to Mexico Sparsely Monitored by State Department
Narco News | April 5, 2009 | Bill Conroy (see links)
“Large shipments of drugs can come into the Mexican ports or airports…. It’s obvious and logical. The government has to be involved in everything that is corrupt. … You’d have to wipe out the government to wipe out drug trafficking.”
Sandra Avila Beltran, from a recent interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes. . . read more
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Mexico’s Drug War Death Toll: 8,463 and Counting
Mexican forensic investigators work at the scene where 12 bodies were discovered in Tijuana on Sept. 29. The bodies of 11 men and one woman were found dumped in an empty lot next to an elementary school, an hour before students were scheduled to arrive. (AP)
Mexico’s Drug War Death Toll: 8,463 and Counting
NARCO NEWS: Posted by Kristin Bricker – December 31, 2008 at 8:38 pm A record-breaking 5,612 people were executed in Mexico’s drug war in 2008, making the drug war more deadly than the drugs Mexico’s daily El Universal, which began counting drug war executions four years ago, reports that 5,612 people were executed in Mexico’s drug war in 2008. This year’s deaths more than doubled 2007’s total of over 2,700 executions. By El Universal’s estimates, about 8,463 drug executions have occurr
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Los Angeles Times, Graphic content: Mexico under siege
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The Lessons of Prohibition
Remember Prohbition Poster, Courtesy NORML
The Lessons of Prohibition
Repeal Day drives home the folly of the Drug War
by Radley Balko (for Reason) | December 3, 2008
This Friday, Dec. 5, is the 75th anniversary of Repeal Day, the day America repealed its disastrous alcohol prohibition.
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Mexico Drug Wars Spill Across the Border
Few regions of the U.S. are immune to drug-trafficking organizations that have left a trail of death, kidnappings and other crimes. (Image courtesy http://www.gameguru.in/)
Mexico Drug Wars Spill Across the Border
By Sam Quinones and Richard A. Serrano November 16, 2008 The drug violence that has left nearly 4,000 people dead this year in Mexico is spreading deep into the United States, leaving a trail of slayings, kidnappings and other crimes in at least 195 cities as far afield as Atlanta, Boston, Seattle and Honolulu, according to federal authorities.
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COPS SAY LEGALIZE DRUGS!
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
August 04, 2006 (less info) Many police officers are asking the question: if prohibition didn’t work for alcohol, why are we in denial about it working for other things? LEAP is a major initiative now, and gaining steam. Check out www.leap.cc for more.
