Cross-posted from Drug Policy: Mexico to allow use of most drugs

[SteppingRazor]

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-53mexicodrugs,0,1855037.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines

MEXICO CITY -- Mexican President Vicente Fox will sign a bill that would legalize the use of nearly every drug and narcotic sold by the same Mexican cartels he's vowed to fight during his five years in office, a spokesman said Tuesday.

The list of illegal drugs approved for personal consumption by Mexico's Congress last week is enough to make one dizzy -- or worse.

Cocaine. Heroin. LSD. Marijuana. PCP. Opium. Synthetic opiates. Mescaline. Peyote. Psilocybin mushrooms. Amphetamines. Methamphetamines.

And the per-person amounts approved for possession by anyone 18 or older could easily turn any college party into an all-nighter: half a gram of coke, a couple of Ecstasy pills, several doses of LSD, a few marijuana joints, a spoonful of heroin, 5 grams of opium and more than 2 pounds of peyote, the hallucinogenic cactus.
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My own wiseass comments on this found at:

http://blogs.southflorida.com/citylink_dansweeney/2006/05/mexico_to_allow_use_of_most_dr.html

[noonwitch]

1. This is going to really create a problem for border patrol/customs

I think pot should be legalized and taxed in this country, and simple possession of small amounts of other drugs decriminalized. I'm not so sure how much legal crack or heroin would do for our society, but making them illegal sure has done wonders for Detroit.

But Border Patrol already has their hands full.

[EC]

2. May I suggest that if there are legal highs

that crack and heroin use may fall?