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Mexico Decriminalizes Small-Scale Drug Possession
Professor_Quail notes an AP story that begins, "Mexico enacted a controversial law Thursday decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs while encouraging free government treatment for drug dependency. The law sets out maximum 'personal use' amounts for drugs, also including LSD and methamphetamine. People detained with those quantities will no longer face criminal prosecution when the law goes into effect Friday." An official in the attorney general's office said, "This is not legalization, this is regulating the issue and giving citizens greater legal certainty... for a practice that was already in place." In 2006, the US criticized a similar bill that had no provisions for mandatory treatment, and the then-president sent it back to Congress for reconsideration.
How do you figure drugs are everywhere? I know who my neighbours are, and I know they don't do drugs.
So they are all non smoking teetotallers who never drink coffee or eat chocolate? You must live in a very strange place...
Move in beside a crack house, then come back to me. that shit being legal won't change it's effects on people. for the record i'm against jail time for small time offenders on pot or LSD - a couple of tabs or a dime bag shouldn't result in jail time, a fine will suffice. But we honestly have enough problems with legal drugs like alcohol, in the face of the overwhelming evidence that legal drugs are a problem, how can you suggest MORE legal drugs will make anything better??!!
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
Not surprising at all - no one has ever died of an overdose of LSD.
False. It requires access to concentrated doses, roughly 15k mcg, but to claim "no one" is simple ignorance.
Plus add in all the people who die due to modified behavior. LSD doesn't lead to suicide (i.e., the desire for death) under its effects, but it alters perceptions so much that dangerous actions occur with actual frequency.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
I've only done locally grown drugs (barring the legal stuff which, due to Canada's climate, has to be imported), and I'm not afraid to be jumped by growers, dealers (esp. as the person I usually go to is a close friend) or, for that matter, junkies (excuse me, but if the people want the drugs to come, it means they're the stoners you're tarring with a broad brush) - most people who do drugs do them on an occasional basis besides.
Actually, at least in the case of MDMA, the adulterants are, in fact, the issue:
Congratulations on totally fucking failing to parse the text you copied and pasted. You win the C&PFAIL award for the day.
MDMA test kits are needed not because MDMA has been adulterated. They are needed because usually the pills are not MDMA at all; they are often MDA, or simple methamphetamine mixed with a downer to give you some other effects. Both are very common; MDA is easier to synthesize and produces superficially similar effects while MDMA is short for 3,4-Methlyenedioxymethamphetamine so... yes, similar effects again.
Fake MDMA pills are not adulterated. They're just fake. Usually they are drugs, but not the ones you wanted.
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Okay then, one question. If druggies only open up to other druggies, then how do the druggies know who are the druggies up to whom they are going to open before they open? They would have to determine who does the drugs first. But how would they determine who does drugs first if the others who do drugs are not going to tell them unless they know that they do drugs first? Someone at some point has to just offer one of their friends some drugs. There's no broadcasting to the world, but friends figure it out. In fact, I know you're making stuff up, because I've lived in areas where people do use drugs. You hear your neighbour talking in her backyard and you walk over to see how she is doing, and she is smoking a joint in her backyard with some friends. She offers you some. Or you go over to a friend of a friend's house and they have a bong on their coffee-table. Or one of your friends tells you about the mushroom trip he went on (I've heard those tales many times). Or one of your friends tells you how he tried cocaine and it made him "feel invincible". (I've heard that one too). That's how it works, there's no big secret-handshake into the drug-user world, but there need not be any "broadcasting to the world" either.
The difference is that the neighbourhood I live in now, you never walk into a neighbours backyard and one of them is smoking a joint. You never go to a neighbour's house and they have a bong lying around. And I do walk in to my neighbours' backyards and I do go to their houses all the time, because I personally know them. And no one ever tells you about any drug use whatsoever in the neighbourhood. My lifestyle (which is your explanation for why I wouldn't hear about my own friends using drugs) hasn't changed between from before and now, so why did I hear about drug-use in the other neighbourhoods but not in this one? The better explanation for this lack of evidence is that the drug use just isn't there.
I can't sign that. If someone offers to sell me MJ, I'll politely say no. If someone offers to sell my minor daughter MJ, that is a far different matter. Those are the dealers I would gladly see in prison for a long, long time.