Could We Be Next…? | Security Debrief - a blog of homeland security news and analysis: "The roller-coaster ride of narcotics enforcement in Mexico continues with the recent decriminalization of personal use drug possession. At a time when the current administration in Mexico is in an all-out war with the drug cartels, could anyone have guessed this one?
The action by the government of Mexico creates one of the world’s most permissive drug markets just over our border. The law goes way beyond what is permitted in many liberal countries by making it legal to possess small amounts of a wide array of drugs. Some of the drugs decriminalized for personal use include: 5 grams of marijuana (the equivalent of four joints), 50 mg of heroin, half a gram of cocaine (the equivalent of three lines of coke), and 40 mg of methamphetamines.
What is even more puzzling about this move is that it comes at a time when drug abuse in Mexico is at epidemic proportions. A 2008 government survey estimates that the number of drug addicts in Mexico doubled in the past six years to 307,000."
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