Think about this Mexico, the marijuana farm of the world!

Would be funny now if there was a mass migration of people across the border from the US into Mexico seeking freedom.

Alt headline: Mexico bracing for sudden surge in tourism.

I was surprise when i saw this. Finally, Mexico is taking it's baby steps to become something good ones more =)

I think this is a step in the right direction. No matter what the government will ever do, people will still be doing these drugs, and those amounts are definately reasonable to put a limit on personal use. Its not the drug users that are the main problem, its the drug dealers. Finally a government that can understand the difference.

I just don't understand why drugs are the highlight of everyone's lives nowadays. The law's supposed tabs on limited drug possession is not going to work. People don't work or think like that! It's a slippery slope because a little bit of leaven,.......if you get my point!

marijuana ok, fine, logical. but LSD, Heroin? come on. WTF?

4 is all i need...

The same stuff is happening here, more reason for us to legalize.

Im on the fence on this one.... on one hand it looks good to see mexico changing its drug laws but you just cant think that the drug cartels had their hand in this. we are going to see more poeple going to mexico just to get their high on. Small businesses and clubs are going to be selling these drugs that the cartels will be supplying. i think the cartel war will shift to these places But it may not be as deadly cause it will be bad for legal buissness. I can go on and on about this...

Uuuugh no comment

Less time spent on the petty stuff, more time spent on the cartels. Good idea, lets hope the execution is aswell

Earlier I said it was a step in the right direction? This is a shell game! This "allows" the poor bastards that are hooked on meth and coke to keep ruining there lives which to a libertarian like me is fine but the problem is they affect their families and many times communities. All the while the CIA, DEA and big governments, police and the so-called 'drug lords' which are below the for-mentioned thugs and ALL of them are under the Don's of the whole mob which are the Bankers (banksters) which launder and make all the 'real' money and power in the drug war which really is world wide!? Wake up people ! TOTAL DECRIMINALIZATION is the only way to take the power back! The 6000 or so 'superclass' need to be removed.
I don't agree with this whole vid being that I believe 9-11 was an 'inside job', at the very least a real investigation need to happen. But there is some interesting points.
New American Revolution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsHFwrwdQ-0
US Government is Addicted to Drug Money
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbgjvC1OT8g
Michael Ruppert is hiding out in another country!
Michael Ruppert confronts CIA director about Drug Laundering
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t3pl5Wxgyg

5 grams = 4 joints?

who rolls your joints?

I don't get it. Doesn't sond like it's going to help anything about Mexico (other than, as many of you say, tourism). I would put my money on this being a big mistake.

. . . but maybe that's just me.

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Time for the US to follow suit.

This is rediculous. Marijuana certainly, but Heroin, cocaine, and LSD? This makes Mexico into the failed state we feared. Mexico is now 100 percent cartel owned. Pathetic.

Horray for addiction to drugs!

wow, really?

if its legal they have to have somewhere to buy it legally ?

so in theory a cop can arrest you for having 6 joints ; AND he can be smoking a joint when he does it.?

The thing the cartels and our government both dont want us to remember is that Cannabis IS FREE !!!

You CAN have your WEED and smoke it TOO !

you can buy a few seeds for 10 bucks a pop, and never pay for marijuana again.

I hope this is real.......

Now that I think about it this really isn't going to help anything.Interesting try thou.

A good to add stablization within the Mexican mentality as whole. This specific move explains why Mexico is in such a fucked up state. Hey why not. If it does not work just blame those "evil" imperialists and leech if thier welfare system.

I have full faith that these mexicans will prove that legalizing drugs is an idiotic quick fix to this drug problems

Drug Use is for the weak minded!!!

It was bound to happen eventually. Lets see if it helps.

YaY the drug war is coming to a near end :D

The US should do the same... instead, here in California, our idiot "Governor" Arnold is planning on releasing about 25,000 prisoners to "help our economy", many of whom he plans to keep on house arrest...maybe he should just release the drug offenders who didn't hurt anyone!!! America brags about being the leader of the world but really we are just falling further behind every day...

pretty cool, but -- when I bought coke ("perico") in Mexico, it usually came in bags ("cebollitas") greater than .5 gram.

Great, now if they open state run stores, they can under cut the cartels and soon the cartels will run out of capital and no more cartels. The gangs in america during the alcohol prohibition went belly up when people could buy it from state regulated stores.

Well it's a step in the right direction.....

@rodrigosaenz Old news hermano http://www.milenio.com/node/204108

While I'll admit this is breakthrough policy, I have to quibble about the maximum personal quantities of the a couple of the drugs. ANYONE who uses methamphetamine is almost guaranteed to have more than 40 milligrams of it on them at any given time. That's damned near a full hit for serious users. At first glance, the quantity of heroin an addict might have at any given time, scoring two doses once a day seems likely under the max mark. However, a full dose of heroin when pure is somewhere around 15mg, and this is rarely found especially in countries not heavily producing opium. An average hit, while I've never abused or weighed street samples of heroin, I'd wager money is more than 50mg in total mass. Regarding the LSD... how do they calculate the amount of the actual drug? Do they? Do the weigh the whole damned hit? What if it's in a sugar cube, or a jelly?
My last nitpick is just a silly one. Five grams of pot in four joints? Dang, bro. Whoever wrote this is a serious smoker.

The United States should do the same, as Mexico's new law only solves their side, but will have little effect on drug dealing here.

As soon as the strong nations legalize or apply similar laws as Mexico, they will realize it was not such a great problem on its own. All the fuss of stomping out drugs was the resource wasting problem.

I wonder how long before the U.S. comes to there sences and does the same thing.

Your move Barrack. Time for us to do the same!

My initial impulse on seeing this headline was to check the calendar. Awesomely, it is not April 1st! Good for you, Mexico. Too bad for some of us that America is too backward to ever follow suit.

This is brilliant for mexico to do...we allready buy drugs from them, they might as well make it legal. Imagine the possibilities...America is turning into a third world country ! The only thing America is making right now is Enemies ! legalize it all MEXICO ! undalay

"The bad thing was that it was left up to the discretion of the detective, and it could open the door to corruption or extortion," Espino del Castillo said

Thats the proverbial Yang in our Ying

good for them!

Its a sad day when the laws of Mexico are more fair and sensible than those of the United States.

Cancun just got a lot cooler. I predict a spike in tourism South of the Border.

Sweet! I just booked a week long vaction in Mexico! Looks like its going to be a good one. This takes away some of the sketchiness of the problems with the cops. The US should take note and follow suit.

Prosecutors said the new law sets clear limits that keep Mexico's corruption-prone police from shaking down casual users and offers addicts free treatment...

Mexico has left the nations of madness.

Now if they could just do something with those pesky murderous cartels, we could all take a vacation.... I see it now; go there, get kidnapped, they find out I don't have money, and they kill me for wasting their time..... happy for them, but if I were a consumer I think I'd stay in the states and risk a charge....

It should happen in America, but too many wardens make money off the imprisonment of non-violent offenders, so until it becomes the Washington topic of the month I wouldn't hold your breath.

Mexico = New Amsterdam? probably not

The headline doesn't match the article...

Headline: "Mexico legalizes possession..."

Article: "Mexico decriminalized small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin ","This is not legalization...","People detained with those quantities no longer face criminal prosecution."

Sounds like decriminalization, similar to what California has already done with marijuana. I doubt that there will be Amsterdam style coffee shops popping up though. Still a step in the right direction.

Anybody have any idea IF THEY ARE going to allow hash stores? or is it still distributed illegally, if so it is still susceptible to huge corruption issues. But at least they arent throwing people in jail for petty shit. Although the mexican police don't arrest for anything as long as you have enough money to buy them off.

Let's see how this works for them.

I'll also be watching if it starts to fail if the Drug Lords of Current post about it. I don't have high hopes on that one.

Those joints in the picture look like a little more than 5 grams!!!! Get them!

Wow mexico thats the way to go Vato

Awesome..can't wait til my next vacation!!

Mexico has been talking about this for quite some time. It started all about the same time the swine flu "outbreak" began. Obama was also in Mexico last week, i am sure this is something they discussed.

I would love to see these drugs legalized, however this does nothing to stop cartels. Who produces all the drugs now? the cartels. this is basically allowing them to sell freely now. Without other limits in place this will just end up hurting mexico even more. If they wanted to stop the cartels they should legalize it in the US, because that is where all the money comes from!

"Mexico has emphasized the need to differentiate drug addicts and casual users from the violent traffickers..."

Mexico is leading the way on drug law reform. Who knew? If the murder rate and the cartel activity goes down, it will be hard to deny that the US needs to follow. More money and less violence makes for a happier world.