I don't think legaslisation of drugs will come soon or be an easy fight.
If drugs are elgalised then the government will save alot of moeny by not trying to shut them down and make lods more thanks to taxes.
But then the number of drug dealers bribing their way up the private investor (lobbiests and donators) food chain will diminish.
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Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Tue 20 Jul 2010, 13:08,
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although I broadly agree there's a lot to be said for decriminalisation of drugs
it would be easy fuel to whip up a moral panic amongst the socially conservative - and we've got a government that responds to such stuff - they asked Facebook to remove the Moaty RIP stuff etc.
So I don't see it happening anytime soon either.
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rob, Tue 20 Jul 2010, 13:15,
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I think you're absolutely right about that.
Though the precedent set by Portugal is a good one, so might be taken seriously within the EU.
The big prohibitionist is the US, though - but even there, I can see a time when the crisis in northern Mexico will lead the Mexican government to act, and that could well force the US' hand. And maybe that'll happen before there're too many more deaths in Juarez.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 20 Jul 2010, 13:23,
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