Mexico set to decriminalize!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060428/...exico_drugs_dc

Mexico set to decriminalize pot and cocaine
By Noel Randewich
28 minutes ago



MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Possessing marijuana, cocaine and even heroin will no longer be a crime in Mexico if the drugs are carried in small amounts for personal use, under legislation passed by the Mexican Congress.

The measure given final passage by senators late on Thursday allows police to focus on their battle against major drug dealers, the government says, and President Vicente Fox is expected to sign it into law.

"This law provides more judicial tools for authorities to fight crime," presidential spokesman Ruben Aguilar said on Friday. The measure was approved earlier by the lower house.

Under the legislation, police will not penalize people for possessing up to 5 grams of marijuana, 5 grams of opium, 25 milligrams of heroin or 500 milligrams of cocaine.

People caught with larger quantities of drugs will be treated as narcotics dealers and face increased jail terms under the plan.

The legal changes will also decriminalize the possession of limited quantities of other drugs, including LSD, hallucinogenic mushrooms, amphetamines and peyote -- a psychotropic cactus found in Mexico's northern deserts.

Hundreds of people, including several police officers, have been killed in the past year as drug cartels battle authorities and compete with each other for control of lucrative cocaine, marijuana and heroin smuggling routes from Mexico into the United States.

The violence has raged mostly in northern Mexico but in recent months has spread south to cities like vacation resort Acapulco.

Under current law, it is up to local judges and police to decide on a case-by-case basis whether people should be prosecuted for possessing small quantities of drugs, a source at the Senate's health commission told Reuters.

"The object of this law is to not put consumers in jail, but rather those who sell and poison," said Sen. Jorge Zermeno of the ruling National Action Party.

Fifty-three senators voted for the bill with 26 votes against it.

Hector Michel Camarena, an opposition senator from the Institutional Revolutionary Party, warned that although well intentioned, the law may go too far.

"There are serious questions we have to carefully analyze so that through our spirit of fighting drug dealing, we don't end up legalizing," he said. "We have to get rid of the concept of the (drug) consumer."

(Additional reporting by Anahi Rama)

haha i didnt think they cared about pot anyways...

Since Mexico has such a big influence over america, it should soon be legal here.:stoned:

I wonder if they're going to start seeing a few illegal american immigrants down there now...

¡VIVA M�XICO!

LMAO. That's what Vincente Fox thought during the United States / Canada / Mexico meeting.

"That fucking gringo. I know what I'll do. I'll make narcotics easier to obtain and let people get away with it."

Soon it'll be just like another amsterdam :)

watch the crime rate FALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!

ilovemexico

Yeah I had just read this article and was going to post it...but saw you beat me to it. If this is sucessful in Mexico, it could possibly speed up legalization here in the states.

But is growing decriminalized? :)

No; but it isn't here in the states and we're still doing it.

That is some very good news! :thumbsup: :dance:

yeah, but has anybody got any dank herb that you know has came from Mexico?

I hope the people there know how to calibrate there scales...

Yay, another country down, just hundreds moer to go untill we ahve power muhahahaha

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yeah, but has anybody got any dank herb that you know has came from Mexico?

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trueeeee dat. mexican brick pressed shit is garbage

but anyways....HURRRRRAAAAAAAAAAY FOR MEXICO. now instead of it being ranked a 9/10 on a scary ass place i dont want to get lost in its a 7. SWEET

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Originally Posted by activedenial

Since Mexico has such a big influence over america, it should soon be legal here.:stoned:

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Hey, I'm still happy about this rather large step. The more countries start legalizing it without society falling apart around them, the more citizens in countries where it's still illegal will start asking questions.

THNK U MEXICO :dance:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060428/...BhBHNlYwM5NjQ-

Next time do a search :D.

http://boards.cannabis.com/showthread.php?t=63175

I know that's some pretty crazy stuff.

Like this.

http://boards.cannabis.com/showthread.php?t=63175

lol nice orange.

great minds think alike.

god damnit
i'm done with these forums

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Originally Posted by Its a Plant

lol nice orange.

great minds think alike.

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Yes, I agree..and Alex I think the best thing for you to do is to leave also ;).

http://cannabisnews.com/news/21/thread21789.shtml
Mexico Proposes Decriminalizing Pot and Cocaine
Posted by CN Staff on April 28, 2006 at 11:49:13 PT
By Reuters
Source: Reuters

Mexico City -- Owning marijuana, cocaine and even heroin will no longer be a crime in Mexico if the drugs are carried in small amounts for personal use, under legislation passed by the Congress.
Police will not penalize people for possessing up to 5 grams of marijuana, 5 grams of opium, 25 milligrams of heroin or 500 milligrams of cocaine, under a bill passed by senators late on Thursday and earlier approved by the lower house.

People caught with larger quantities of drugs will be treated as narcotics dealers and face increased jail terms under the plan.

The government says the measure allows police to focus on major drug dealers, and President Fox is expected to sign it into law.

"This law provides more judicial tools for authorities to fight crime," presidential spokesman Ruben Aguilar said on Friday.

Hundreds of people including several police officers have been killed in the past year as drug cartels battle authorities and compete with each other for control of lucrative cocaine, marijuana and heroin smuggling routes from Mexico into the United States.

The violence has raged mostly in northern Mexico but in recent months has spread south to cities like vacation resort Acapulco.

Under current law, it is up to local judges and police to decide on a case-by-case basis whether people should be prosecuted for possessing small quantities of drugs, a source at the Senate's health commission told Reuters.

"The object of this law is to not put consumers in jail, but rather those who sell and poison," said Sen. Jorge Zermeno of the ruling National Action Party.

Fifty-three senators voted for the bill with 26 votes against it.

Newshawk: Whig
Source: Reuters (Wire)
Published: April 28, 2006
Copyright: 2006 Reuters

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thats pretty nuts. I dont think it will pass.

Id like to see both canada and mexico pass that and then us get squeezed into doing it. CONFORMITY!

i like the idea excpet for making amounts of heroin and coke legal. but i would love something like that in the US, no penalty for having an o of weed, but anything more and you get dealing.

Once a group and myself were pulled over in Mexico. The Federalis found a bag of pot in the trunk. They took the bag and let us go. I thought we were fucked.

haha

5 grams WTF???

Does this count for shwag as well?

where would u prefer to go dam? cold, or MEXICO HOT WITH BEACHES!

I heard about this last night. Good news - hope herion addictions dont spiral out of control though, :)

Mexico, is legilizin drugs, not sure whick ones.
I know weeds one of them, is was on the news,
and on the internet.Shit mexico might,turn into another amsterdam:rasta: :rasta: :dance: :dance: :dance:

I hope they do, the more that legalise the more that will do it to fit in.

*****Breaking News*****

The wherabouts of killa
Posted by CN Staff on April 29, 2006 at 07:50:34 ET
By Reuters
Source: Reuters

KILLA IS MOVING TO MEXICO TO SETUP SHOP!!!

So weed is almost legal to the north and the south of us. Perhaps the collective conciousness surrounding us will make is almost legal here as well.

mexican weed is shit..but this makes me more comfortable sneaking a 1/4 down to mexico whenever I want to go..I have been paranoid as fuck in the past...I've heard stories of people getting locked up for years just cuz of pot..well I guess it could be a right step, unless all the addicts start goinng down to mexico to buy hard drugs and shit.

Mexico, in the past, was known for producing some very good stuff - Michoacan and Acapulco Gold were two of several strains that were available 35+ years ago, and at good prices - a nickel bag, for five bucks, usually contained a few decent joints' worth. This was very "happy" sativa - paranoia wasn't a characteristic of it, maybe because it was more natural and unrefined.

Nixon was responsible for destroying the trade - and thus the shitty Mexican stuff, the infamous brown bricks and other dirtweed, became the only Mexican to be brought across the border. The professional smugglers set their sights on Columbia and Jamaica for the majority of their supply.

Good new.
I would love to it happen
I got busted in Mexico about 10 years ago with a couple of joints
They took the J's and 60$ of my cash
That was it. :thumbsup:

Jah bless Mexico.