Senior official rejects legalization of pot
Source: Mexico News Daily
A senior official in the Interior Secretariat has rejected a proposal that could see the cultivation and possession of marijuana being legalized for recreational use, calling on the government to focus its energies on prevention instead by tackling the organized criminal gangs behind the supply routes of cannabis and other drugs.
Arturo Escobar y Vega, the undersecretary of Civic Prevention and Participation, said the government of Enrique Peña Nieta would leave a political legacy in terms of prevention not legalization.
To underline this point, he indicated that 140 billion pesos (US $8.4 billion) had been spent by the administration on preventative measures, with a budget of 2.6 billion pesos earmarked this year for the National Program for the Prevention of Crime.
Escobar was responding to Supreme Court Justice Arturo Zaldivar, who recommended last week that restrictions on marijuana cultivation and possession should be struck from the General Health law because they are unconstitutional.
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randr
(12,412 posts)Chakab
(1,727 posts)internationally. Legalization would put Canada in violation of several international treaties regarding suppression of the narcotics trade that the US uses to bully countries who make rumblings about legalization.
All that we need is for the first domino to topple.
SmittynMo
(3,544 posts)Seems like the answer is right there. Let the dominos fall.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)generally the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$'s to be made that becomes top priority, not people. The enforcers get big $$$$$'s rolling in, and those dealing drugs get big $$$$$$$'s. The people get shit on, but those rolling in $$$$$'s love it, and fuck the people.
Pathetic!
blackspade
(10,056 posts)Or is it more to line the pockets of Arturo Escobar y Vega's 'friends?'
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Everyone knows at the major resorts it's easy to buy. Mexico you're hurting your local economy by keeping marijuana economy, those local sales "under the table" in the Drug Gangs control.