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| ivanbee |
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Possessing marijuana, cocaine and even heroin will no longer be a crime in Mexico if the drugs are carried in small amounts for personal use, under legislation passed by the Mexican Congress.
The measure given final passage by senators late on Thursday allows police to focus on their battle against major drug dealers, the government says, and President Vicente Fox is expected to sign it into law.
"This law provides more judicial tools for authorities to fight crime," presidential spokesman Ruben Aguilar said on Friday. The measure was approved earlier by the lower house.
Under the legislation, police will not penalize people for possessing up to 5 grams of marijuana, 5 grams of opium, 25 milligrams of heroin or 500 milligrams of cocaine.
People caught with larger quantities of drugs will be treated as narcotics dealers and face increased jail terms under the plan.
The legal changes will also decriminalize the possession of limited quantities of other drugs, including LSD, hallucinogenic mushrooms, amphetamines and peyote -- a psychotropic cactus found in Mexico's northern deserts.
Hundreds of people, including several police officers, have been killed in the past year as drug cartels battle authorities and compete with each other for control of lucrative cocaine, marijuana and heroin smuggling routes from Mexico into the United States.
The violence has raged mostly in northern Mexico but in recent months has spread south to cities like vacation resort Acapulco.
Under current law, it is up to local judges and police to decide on a case-by-case basis whether people should be prosecuted for possessing small quantities of drugs, a source at the Senate's health commission told Reuters.
"The object of this law is to not put consumers in jail, but rather those who sell and poison," said Sen. Jorge Zermeno of the ruling National Action Party.
Fifty-three senators voted for the bill with 26 votes against it.
Hector Michel Camarena, an opposition senator from the Institutional Revolutionary Party, warned that although well intentioned, the law may go too far.
"There are serious questions we have to carefully analyze so that through our spirit of fighting drug dealing, we don't end up legalizing," he said. "We have to get rid of the concept of the (drug) consumer." |
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| lex400sc |
| soo.... tiesto @ rosarito beach yah? :wtf: |
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| ivanbee |
| i have dual citezenship for mexico and the united states so i can prolly walk in there pretty easy and pick some stuff up. anybody need anything? |
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| DjWoody |
Hahaha I think this means you will be able to smoke out at the clubs, roll, and do other things without getting into trouble.
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| lex400sc |
| quote: | Originally posted by DjWoody
Hahaha I think this means you will be able to smoke out at the clubs, roll, and do other things without getting into trouble.
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i would be more worried about the peyote, ketamine, shrooms and acid :wtf: |
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| serch54 |
| quote: | | ...The Senate bill, which also lays out allowable quantities for other drugs, including amphetamines. Mexicans would be allowed to possess more than 2 pounds of peyote, a hallucinogenic cactus.. |
I can only posess 2.2 pounds of peyote? damn.. I need at least 3 to trip nicely :rolleyes: |
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| SVGmethod |
| goddamn drug addicts. LOL. |
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| GPC |
| quote: | Originally posted by ivanbee
i have dual citezenship for mexico and the united states so i can prolly walk in there pretty easy and pick some stuff up. anybody need anything? |
Ummm...yeah. I'll have what Sasha likes ;) |
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| PicottoIsGod |
| so wait lemme get this straight........your only allowed to have one of those drugs in that amount @ any1 given time...? or can you have everytype of drug as long as its in its measurements...?...lol oh and just kinda curious, wat the limit is on shrooms....just curious..... |
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| PicottoIsGod |
| quote: | Originally posted by GPC
Ummm...yeah. I'll have what Sasha likes ;) |
qtr ounce of cocaine and 2 packs of cigarettes....?
i can hook u up with some bombass stoges dude if your interested PM me.... |
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| lex400sc |
| quote: | Originally posted by GPC
Ummm...yeah. I'll have what Sasha likes ;) |
a half gram would last sasha about 5 min |
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| Dj onE |
| quote: | Originally posted by lex400sc
a half gram would last sasha about 5 min |
YEA!!!!...im on some right now!, colombian !!!!...ooooweeeee!!!, feeelin great!
.dJOnE. |
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