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While other countries in Latin American have tried to decriminalize and sometimes outright legalize drugs, Mexico, the largest piece of the puzzle has held on to America's drug war even though it has cost almost 30,000 lives. The problems Mexico is facing due to the drug war is that elected officials taking a stand are tortured, killed and left on public display. Police have been murdered and left on the steps of police stations. Journalists have been kidnapped and killed to the point that news outlets have stopped reporting about drug crimes or killings out of fear of retaliation.
Over the course of the last four years the current president of Mexico, Felipe Calderon has taken a harder and harder stance against the drug cartels, spending millions of military dollars to fight the civil war being waged in his country. America, in turn, has given Mexico millions of dollars to help fight their drug war, which in reality is our drug war. The drugs that Mexico is producing are headed straight North to our borders. The former presidents of Columbia, Brazil and Former Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo and former Mexican president Fox have urged Latin American countries to consider legalizing marijuana as a way to undermine drug cartel profits, but Calderon has long said he is opposed to legalizing. Other countries in Latin and South America have their eyes on California, to wait and see if America begins to legalize marijuana. They are waiting to structure new drug policies in their own countries until after the election.
Meanwhile, Mexican President Calderon has come out this week and declared that if California decriminalizes the possession, production and sale of marijuana, it will present a problem for Mexico. In an interview with a Mexican newspaper, Calderon warned that the move to legalize marijuana in California would put Mexico in serious trouble and would have an unknown impact on the Mexican market. He was quoted by the paper as saying, ""It's really hard for the government to jail a farmer who is planting marijuana to sell to Californians," He called the inconsistency of US public policy reprehensible and criticized the US for failing to rein in the demand for illegal drugs and clamp down on illegal sale of weapons that head south of our border.
In response to the killings and corruption of small, local police departments, Mexico's president sent a bill to Mexico's congress on Wednesday that would consolidate the country's nearly 2,000 municipal police forces with state agencies. He believes that coordinating police forces will better guarantee Mexicans security and be better equipped to take on the country's drug gangs. Calderon's plan has the backing of Mexico's governors and much of Congress but is, not surprisingly, opposed by the majority of Mexico's mayors. The mayors argue that putting the country's public security in the governors' hands will further weaken the country's federal system, which has slowly recovered from the one party rule that reigned in Mexico for most of the past century. Calderon has relied heavily on federal police, army troops and marines in his crackdown on Mexico's powerful and well-financed drug trafficking gangs. By doing away with local police forces, Calderon is eliminating what he sees is a weak link in his country's fight against drug cartels.
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Author: Cannabis Karri
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Copyright: 2010 Cannabis Fantastic
Website:Mexico's President Criticizes US for Drug Policy and Prop 19 | Cannabis Fantastic
Over the course of the last four years the current president of Mexico, Felipe Calderon has taken a harder and harder stance against the drug cartels, spending millions of military dollars to fight the civil war being waged in his country. America, in turn, has given Mexico millions of dollars to help fight their drug war, which in reality is our drug war. The drugs that Mexico is producing are headed straight North to our borders. The former presidents of Columbia, Brazil and Former Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo and former Mexican president Fox have urged Latin American countries to consider legalizing marijuana as a way to undermine drug cartel profits, but Calderon has long said he is opposed to legalizing. Other countries in Latin and South America have their eyes on California, to wait and see if America begins to legalize marijuana. They are waiting to structure new drug policies in their own countries until after the election.
Meanwhile, Mexican President Calderon has come out this week and declared that if California decriminalizes the possession, production and sale of marijuana, it will present a problem for Mexico. In an interview with a Mexican newspaper, Calderon warned that the move to legalize marijuana in California would put Mexico in serious trouble and would have an unknown impact on the Mexican market. He was quoted by the paper as saying, ""It's really hard for the government to jail a farmer who is planting marijuana to sell to Californians," He called the inconsistency of US public policy reprehensible and criticized the US for failing to rein in the demand for illegal drugs and clamp down on illegal sale of weapons that head south of our border.
In response to the killings and corruption of small, local police departments, Mexico's president sent a bill to Mexico's congress on Wednesday that would consolidate the country's nearly 2,000 municipal police forces with state agencies. He believes that coordinating police forces will better guarantee Mexicans security and be better equipped to take on the country's drug gangs. Calderon's plan has the backing of Mexico's governors and much of Congress but is, not surprisingly, opposed by the majority of Mexico's mayors. The mayors argue that putting the country's public security in the governors' hands will further weaken the country's federal system, which has slowly recovered from the one party rule that reigned in Mexico for most of the past century. Calderon has relied heavily on federal police, army troops and marines in his crackdown on Mexico's powerful and well-financed drug trafficking gangs. By doing away with local police forces, Calderon is eliminating what he sees is a weak link in his country's fight against drug cartels.
NewsHawk: MedicalNeed:420 MAGAZINE
Source:cannabisfantastic.com
Author: Cannabis Karri
Contact: Contact | Cannabis Fantastic
Copyright: 2010 Cannabis Fantastic
Website:Mexico's President Criticizes US for Drug Policy and Prop 19 | Cannabis Fantastic
