Gunmen kill 17 people at a drug rehabilitation center in Mexico

wow, mexican dug lords have 1 a hell of a marketing team!

So, after all, Ms. Winehouse was right to say "No, no, no" to rehab.

I mean to tell ya, those boys are NO JOKE.

What kind of low life actually jokes about this. Spoiled Americans, who fuel the drug war from their couches?

por QUEE

So where is the "War on Terror"?

That sucks and it's terrible that people are so violent.

Guess the law change on drugs didn't solve much of the violent problem as people claimed it could.

Give it time? Or do you mean to state give them more human sacrifices until the law actually does good?

Ya see even the mexicans hate quiters

a very good post. its a shame because these people were seeking help for their drug problems.. it appears that these killers were concern about these people doing this.

No suspects ?????? oh now come on !

It really is a shame that anyone lost their lives. The problem is, we could go into Mexico and get tied up in a long costly war with drug lords, but I don't think we should. The best way to to deal with this very serious problem is by offering help to people here in the US, instead of throwing drug users in jail help rehabilitate them, or even prevent them from needing to take rugs in the first place. Knowing they have a means of taking care of themselves could probably reduce the number of drug users dramatically.

Mr Hand says, "Drugs are bad."

this gives peaceful users and quitters the shakes

Mexico has some problems, if prohibition (in places other than Mexico) hadn't driven prices sky high and made these guys rich the situation wouldn't be the same. You can debate whose at fault all you want, users or laws, but that won't change the fact that America has seriously helped create this monster. And because the cartels are such monstrosities, simply decriminalizing in Mexico will only help a few weekend users stay out of legal trouble. You want to stop the violence in Mexico? change policies elsewhere, push the value of their product down, and help Mexico systematically dismantle their drug cartels....What we made them for Mexico to deal with and just leave innocents, and people not wanting to get caught up in it, stuck? We owe more to Mexico, than Afghanistan...

If Cannabis were legalized it would be free.Prohibition makes drugs dangerous......

Innocent people dying because of American policies and intervention, kinda sounds like Iraq.

i wish there was something someone could do to prevent this from happening.... any ideas?

i remember hearing a special on npr's Hearing Voices show by silver tongued scott carrier about juarez. that place is crazy and we can't blame u.s. policy for what is going on there. if stalin or chairman mao were running things in mexico, not that i would wish that on them, there would be coffins lined up in the streets waiting for drug gang members. if there was a correct military response to the drug lords they would be smited...along with a fair amount of collateral damage i am sure. but what i heard on that show on npr it sounds like the military is paid off. can you imagine drug lords paying off castro? i can't.

...and Obama rather than ENDING THE DUG WAR sends more of our tax dollars to Mex' to 'fight' the drug war!!??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbgjvC1OT8g

legalize it. Cannabis is Free.

I am more than sure that the clinic was targetted due to the new law that passed allowing possession of a small amount and letting the government go after the "big wigs". The new law would supposedly allow police to refer the "addicts" to rehab centers, so it's prob an F-U to the government..as long as WE here continue with our demand and the governments ignorance towards it, there is nothing that Mexico can do to help in the supposed drug war, plus we seem to inadverdently be the cartels' gun supplier as well (through regular people purchasing and smuggling them back) so it's a whole lot of bullshit going on..

Yep! Why are the Herbs that heal so darn hard to get??Stop the war on the herbs.This kind of murder and living hell is over a plant I don't think so This is a war over Drugs That man has made from a plant that grows. A man has to Make a drug an Herb will grow on It's own...I have never gone to a Meth bush and picked me some fresh Meth I have gone to town and bought Meth from a man that was wrong but I screw up now and then Oh well life goes on back on topic any way dope is every where in every spape and form. Oh by the way I am almost A year clean of Meth I know what and how drugs are effecting the good"Ol U.S. I see it every day in the faces of My Friends and Famly what is Happen in mexico is not going Away over night. I see them at the piont Texas was A hundred and fifty years ago. But instead of Gold and Wiskey. Their Fights are over drugs and Money. They have more fire power than they did back then but so do the cowboys these days.To legallize the Herbs would help Know dout but it is going to take a better management of our funds and borders. We need to stop worrying So much about every one else and focus more on the Home Team. If This made sence to any one You need to go see a Phychiatrist Right Away....

It's clear that US drug laws and prohibition are directly helping stir the flames south of the border. The violence is a repeat of our own history from the 1920's. That it's happening in Mexico to Mexicans and not Americans is the reason our government is dragging it's feet on reform and repeal.

How many St. Valentine's Day Massacre's have to happen before authorities open their eyes to the real cause?

I live in El Paso, in fact i can see Juarez from where I'm sitting right now and its crazy to think that that's the most violent city in all of Mexico and it's so peaceful here.

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