The international drug trade and the multinational drug cartels behind it present at least as much threat to the United States (and other countries) as does terrorism. In fact, the cartels are but another facet of terrorism. That's what a top DEA official told Congress just a few days ago: http://www.theyucatantimes.com/2011/10/mexico-drug-cartels-present-greater-threat-to-u-s-security-than-iran-says-u-s-state-dept/.
Cocaine is just ONE of the drugs which former Mexican president Vicente Fox wants to legalize, worldwide: http://mexicogulfreporter.blogspot.com/2011/10/vicente-fox-urges-legalization-of-all.html#more.
Legalize a narcotic, this would be insanity on the part of Vicente Fox!
ReplyDeleteAs for pot, it should be decriminalized and legal, tax it like tobacco? Just saying...
I love hearing from you, Denyse, but I'm not so sure I agree with you on this one. It's not the pot that's got me worried -- it's the kind of people and businesses that will want to be involved in its production and distribution. I don't know that governments anywhere should be in bed with such activity. And once you start down the slippery slope, just where you stop in terms of legalizing drugs. Marijuana today, and what tomorrow?
ReplyDeletePlease think about these words: "Existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the Government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.” They were written by Justice Louis Brandeis in 1928, in a famous case called Olmstead vs. United States (277 U.S. 438, 485). They were true then, and they’re true today in my opinion. (And by the way, I'm not a law and order fanatic. Some people consider me to the Left of Leon Trotsky.)
What kind of example does it set for ANY government to allow or promote – even indirectly – the sale of a drug?