Comments about ‘Mexico's new drug-use law worries U.S. police’

Thank you Mexico! Viva Mexico! You ended a expensive failed war on drugs. Mexico is right. We need to push for treatment, and stop filling are jails.

The War on Drugs is over ... unfortunately we lost.

We can either keep our jails and prisons bulging at the seams with addicts and drug dealers or we can kill the illegal Drug Trade (and the crime that goes with it) by decriminalizing drug use by adults and offering drug treatment for users.

Imagine what would happen when there was no longer enormous profits to be made in the Drug Trade?

Drugs could be regulated and taxed exactly the way we do it for tobacco and alcohol. With hopefully most of the money going to rehabilitation programs.

By the way, I don't use drugs and don't think other people should use them either. But I'm a pragmatist. We can't lock up everyone who uses drugs ... otherwise our jails would be full of not only drug users and dealers ... but also judges, teachers, students, policeman and politicians.

Yes ... it's time to try a different approach to the drug problem. Just say "No" didn't work. Sorry Nancy Reagan ...

Goes to show again the real root of the problem: the spiritually bankrupt individuals who depend on alcohol and drugs to get through life.

There are some good points in this change of attitude towards users, it is more of a health issue for the users. Putting more efforts in to rehab would be cheaper than incarcerating them in jail while the real criminals get out of jail free.

One difference would be to keep possession illegal so it can be confiscated, but decriminalize it so as not to require jail time. Users are only a hazard to themselves and rehabilitation cheaper.

Why Mexico's law would make any difference at the border doesn't make sense why the US side is worried. Confiscation is always in force and those traveling across the border just can't bring it back with them.

The drug war has been costing america billions of dollars a year and has been inefective is stopping drugs. Chasing drug lords through the jungle has been a joke and for every one killed, three more lords pop up.

America's best defense on drugs is militarize the border with our military, stop the flow, and forget the methods that have failed for over 30 years.

Great, Mexico will continue to be a problem in the drug war, They have no intention of stopping the drug trade and their crime and murder rate will spill over into America.

I work in the medical field and these drugs will impair your brain/reasoning/view of life permanently. Basically individuals who use drugs will end up idiots/low IQ with unnatural responses to life's situations (like the 24 year old man in Cedar City who just shot his wife this weekend, he was a on drugs). This is scary for Mexico as so many are uneducated to begin with and adding brain impairment to the population will not create a better society. Here in America, we must not surrender to the war on drugs, these things are too dangerous to use.

Well, I guess time will tell if this is a good idea or not. There may be both good and bad results, it's a complicated issue.

It will be interesting to see if Americans develop a taste for "freedom tourism."

Why would US police be worried?

No one has not ever used illegal drugs because of efforts of law enforcement or the military.

Anyone who wants these drugs can have them.

So with what Mexico has done, what has changed?

Most every drug deemed illegal is dangerous and destructive.

However no efforts this far, have been able to stop them from being available.

Given this, what is the reason we continue to spend billions every year trying?

If someone ever figures out a successful way to make them unavailable, fine, lets do it, but in the mean time,

Lets not spend military or police or prison money on this, given that the money won't buy us anything.
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I don't take illegal drugs, want to know why? When I was young I was taught they were bad for me.

I suggest we stop spending money on things that don't work and start doing things that do work.

EDUCATION and Treatment

A policy gate way drug. What better way to weaken a nation? After a failing drug war almost any thing else looks appealing. First the SPP, eventually the NAU?

Get that filthy picture off the page. If I wanted to see that filth I'd do drugs. But I don't, and I make a conscious effort to avoid such trash.

Thank you for ruining my day.

The problem most people don’t think about when talking about drugs is all the "other" side affects they produce. And I’m not talking about the physical side affects.
Most people fail to realize that most other crimes, such as auto and home burglaries, or robberies, which all occur on a daily basis, are the result of drug users or addicts. These are the real side affects, which WILL affect those who have nothing to do with drugs.
You are kidding yourself when you say drugs users are not the problem. The users who are addicted to the drug are the ones who are committing a lot of our thefts, burglaries, and robberies to get their money to purchase more drugs. These people don’t care who they hurt in the process to get more "drug" money. All they care about is getting the money to get their next “hit.”
This is the real problem no one is talking about. If it were just people using drugs then no one would care. But drugs are the roots of a lot of crimes in our wonderful country. The more liberal we become with drugs the more problems we will have.

This was not a "failed war on drugs." It was a BOTCHED war on CRIME in general - drug trading happens to be just one part of it.

"For a country that has experienced thousands of deaths from warring drug cartels for many years, it defies logic why they would pass a law that will clearly encourage drug use."

I think that just about says it all. The cartels trade drugs for a convenient source of money, but that isn't all they focus on - they have already infiltrated the Mexican government, on multiple levels. They trade guns, and people. Now explain to me, logically, how you get rid of a cartel by EXPANDING the legal use of their main source of income? Heck, even the US government understands that basic principle - they regularly tax undesirable behavior, from tobacco and alcohol to non-"green" businesses' products.

We will see increased cartel violence now - even more than than the increased violence and lawlessness we've already witnessed there over the last year or so. What a stupid move on the part of the Mexican government. Or, maybe a smart move on the part of the Mexican cartel-run government?

I'm worried ... very worried. In the short term, mexico is the vacation spot for those who want to do drugs without the fear of getting caught. The US police are worried because there will me an increase in the number of US citizens who return from Mexico after a drug party. They pose a real threat. This will also increase the pressure on border states to follow suit under the misguided logic that "our laws aren't preventing drug use. Drug users simply go over the border, get high, and drive back. We're putting drug over-dosed people behind the wheel of a car by making them drive to Mexico. We should permit recreational drug use here to prevent drug users from having to drive".
That's the slippery slope we're on.


Second, imagine 10-20 years from now. By de-criminalizing drug use that eats away at the brain, we're dramatically increasing the number of people who will think very poorly. We let those people raise kids who perpetuate their parents lifestyle. We let those poor-thinkers vote. They'll vote for even less rigorous drug laws. A slippery slope indeed! I'm VERY AFRAID

... build a bigger, stronger, better wall... oh, and man it with more border patrol - we're going to need all the help we can get.

In response to "Shame on you". If you ignore it, it doesn't go away. Why do you choose to allow your day to be ruined anyway? /// A thought. If in fact the only non-addictive illegal substance "marijuana" is a gateway drug, why is it a gateway drug? It's because you have to go to the drug dealer to get it. Legalize it, and the drug dealer won't sell marijuana anymore. Then, it's not a gateway drug. /// In the United States, if a addict wants to quit and isn't insured, where does he go for help? /// Our nation's methods of dealing with drug problems do not work. For example, if you have a drug conviction, I do believe that you cannot receive financial aid for college. Perhaps there should be conditions for such aid. However, what a great way of keeping a man down. Using drugs should never be a crime in and of itself. Forget jail space, and create recovery centers. A young addict enters jail, and a criminal mind later is released. Terrible strategy.

Don't be dramatic about this!
This is not going to change anybody's life in the United States.

Just a new form of terrorism only by a third world country..if humans can come in and utah has welcomed this populace with open arms, then what are we to expect? The mules know that this bartering country has drugs as another form of money which will easily make it's way up here. Alreay illegal stashing pts are being found along the corridor taken by these people. Some are very ruthless and actually don't care who they sell this illegal stuff to as they are here illegally anyways. oh, but i forgot we as American citizens aren't suppose to voice our opinions against this factor to be reckoned with as that is a total lack of polictical correctness even if my grandfather gave his life for such a rigth!! So i quess it is VIVA MEXICO as they have the jobs right downtown which natural born citizens should have in these hard economic times. My son is the only one who speaks fluent English on his crew so what happened to English ONLY UTAH???

Have the best drugs, I have lost all respect for the Police.
They are in Kahoots with the Court and violate our rights.

How is this to make use of drugs unglamorous to the users and unprofitable to the dealers.

Have clinics provide the drugs for free, but for as long as the high lasts, the person getting the drugs has to wait at the clinic.

This way dealers can't charge high prices for the drugs, so they won't be supplying them to parties, and friends can't pass them to friends.

These are the two places where is where people would be motivated to begin taking in the first place, either a friend hands some to you, or you are at a party and everyone is using.

I can't imagine a person who has never taken before thinking, I'll go the the clinic and try some xxxxx and stay there for a few hours until the high wears off.