Quote Originally Posted by boaz
yeah, i agree, if it were me, i would have just legalized cannabis for medical and personal use and cultivation. i guess this frees up the individual Mexican states to set their own local laws and to better control their own local police. that is probably a good thing, from what i remember, from my baja road trips, the federalies could be some bad hombres.
As undesirable as hard drugs may be, prohibition of them is still illegitimate and harmful. Were I in charge of drug policy, I would fully legalize cannabis and remove penalties for possession of small amounts of any other substance. Governments have no right to prohibit any substance (God knows they give the green light for enough of pharma's poison), and after the experiment of 1920-1933 I'm astounded any reasonable person will even entertain the notion of prohibition of anything.