Sam Enriquez, from the LA Times write that Mexico to Allow Use of Drugs.
MEXICO CITY -- Mexican President Vicente Fox will sign a bill that would legalize the use of nearly every drug and narcotic sold by the same Mexican cartels he's vowed to fight during his five years in office, a spokesman said Tuesday.
And the per-person amounts approved for possession by anyone 18 or older could easily turn any college party into an all-nighter: half a gram of coke, a couple of Ecstasy pills, several doses of LSD, a few marijuana joints, a spoonful of heroin, 5 grams of opium and more than 2 pounds of peyote, the hallucinogenic cactus.
All joking aside, Mexico's bold new approach to the management of his growing drug problem. However, I'm concerned that rather than decriminal personal use in the context of a comprehensive total physical, mental, and public health program, this seems to be an ad hoc piecemal approach.
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