Former Mexican president says country will legalise all drugs within a decade

[Judi Lynn]

Former Mexican president says country will legalise all drugs within a decade

Vicente Fox: ‘I think marijuana is a first step … It’s now irreversible’

Mexico’s supreme court recently approved growing drug for recreational use

Reuters in Mexico City
Wednesday 18 November 2015 15.17 EST

All drugs including cocaine, heroin and crystal meth will be legal in Mexico within 10 years, said the country’s former president Vicente Fox, after a court ruling that he said makes the legalisation of marijuana inevitable.

“I think marijuana (legalization) is a first step,” Fox told Reuters on Tuesday. “It’s now irreversible.”

Fox was president between 2000 and 2006 and became an advocate of legalising drugs after leaving office.

Earlier this month, the supreme court approved growing marijuana for recreational use. The landmark decision blasts open the door for an eventual legalisation in Mexico, where warring gangs have waged a decade of drug violence.

More:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/18/former-president-vicente-fox-mexico-legalise-all-drugs-10-years

[Warpy]

1. It's the only sensible approach there--and here

Undercut the black market price with pure drugs that have reliable dosages. The gangs will have to go into some other line of business, maybe even put on suits and pay taxes. Nothing supports gang finances like black market mind altering substances. Nothing reinforces addiction like having one's supply threatened by illegality. Nothing causes street crime like having to pay a black market price for something one is under addictive compulsion to keep using.

The drug war is a miserable failure that has cost us all too much in lives and money.

Some people will always run into trouble with drugs. Most won't. I don't see the people who can't stay away from psychoactive substances going without them at the height of the drug war. It hasn't worked. All it's done is decrease the supply of the more benign substances and replace them with bathtub drugs that are much, much worse.

[Wilms]

2. You owe us an OP.

Well said.

[newfie11]

3. El Chapo and the CIA will be out of business

Retirement time.

[MisterP]

4. like Sinaloa's tomato cartels! (hey, waitaminute, tomatoes were legal the whole time ...)

[newfie11]

5. Lol