Drug Reform Movement Finds Home With Mexican Activists
Maria Guadalupe Guzman Romo wasn’t concerned about legalizing pot in Texas when she marched on the state Capitol last weekend.
But there she stood anyway, just a few feet away from a giant banner that called for an end to the prohibition of marijuana and the taxing of hemp. Guzman Romo was there because of her son, a former Mexican army soldier who disappeared from Ciudad Juárez in 1993, decades before the current drug war that has claimed more than 60,000 lives.
“I tell them not to feel defeated. I have been fighting 19 years and I ...
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Jalapeño Schwartz via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Prison lobby won't allow it!
Mary Muna via Texas Tribune on Facebook
whatever low lifes.
Audrey Fisher via Texas Tribune on Facebook
There is hilarious article where some make the faux argument that Zero tolerance is just like alcohol consumption - which for those not paying attention does not start at ZERO. The point being that we are all paying for these stupid laws. If the GOP was serious about reducing costs - will they look at this? _______ I take that as a NO. They will continue to fund corporations....it is their version of the "cycle of life".
Mary Steele
You think they would have learned from prohibition! Making something illegal doesn't stop people from using it. It causes the violence and the money lost in revenue could do a lot of good! Regulate it so super weed is illegal! You don't see anybody selling alcohol on the streets and moonshine is not widely available! You will have money for rehab for those who want to go and other needs! Roads, schools, not to mention the jobs! Depression from unemployment drives people into depression so they drink or use other drugs. Then commit crimes to pay for it! As far as drunk drivers, repeat offenses would lessen if they were not allowed to buy it or drink it, if they were convicted of a DUI or plead to a lesser charge. Test them, if they violate it, jail them. If community service was mandatory for every sentence, they would have less time to get into trouble.
David Spratt
You people advocating for legalizing drugs are nuts. Where are these people who are " legally " using these drugs going to work? Making something legal does not change the effects it has on a person.
Yes by all means we should have truckers and School bus drivers smoking pot. Maybe the teachers union as well can lobby for "Pot breaks?"Would you like your doctor to fire one up before changing out your liver? Maybe iron workers walking beams 200 ft in the air? How about train engineers, machinists or the AP mechanic working on the plane you are getting ready to fly on. How about oilfield workers, or the guy welding the gas pipeline that is running next to your house?
The company I work for has a no tolerance policy for alcohol. You must blow 0.00 if tested. If you test for weed or any other drug not proscribed ,, you will be terminated no questions asked.
No these people need to mind their own business. Drugs in the workplace are not acceptable, as is alcohol and it is not tolerated in most of the workplace.
Maria Guadalupe Guzman Romo,,, your son is dead. It is your fellow bloodthirsty countrymen who killed him and many others,,, not Americans. You and others like you who would promote legalizing drugs are blaming others for your failures to control the corruption and crime rampant within your country at large and more specifically in your government and law enforcement agencies.
Over the years rather than working within your own system to change your country for the better,,,, millions have fled for the easy life in the U.S. that our young men and women have died for . You come here and take advantage of all the benefits that have been gained over the years by the sacrifice and struggle of the American Citizens. No instead of fighting for what you believe in and possibly having to give your life you take the easy way out and run to another country,,, which is ready made for you to soak up all the milk and honey you can.
Your countrymen are dying for nothing. Instead of trying to convince our population to accept and readily use the poisons you produce you should return to your own country to make a difference.
No your people are weak,, your country is weak and you are trying to weaken us as well.
David Spratt
We have plenty of people in jails and prisons for breaking all types of laws. Do not cry from the cell , unfair and unjust. The laws of this country are not a secret. You break them there is a price to pay. Should we forgive burglars, shoplifters, pedophiles, rapists,, people who speed or talk on cell phones in a school zone,, bank robbers and murderers?
After all people are going to do it anyway.
Debbie Zimm
At some point very soon economics is going to force reason. The drug war does not work, after 40 years there are more drugs, higher quality and cheaper on the streets. The government has failed to stop the supply, period. Some would argue it is an industry, supporting big government. The government pays alot of lip service, but not that serious about stopping the supply. It is so two faced for Republican sheep and tea baggers to wail about smaller government yet blindly support and fund documented crimes in the injustice system. It is not radical and it is not liberal to demand those responsible for dishing out responsibility take responsibility for their criminal actions. It is well within the power of the government to eradicate illegal drugs. So if the government is serious about protecting us from uncontrolled substances, legalize them (and control them) or eradicate them and quit pussy footing around!
Michael Hull
I'd like to think that whenever David Spratt gets angry, which seems to be frequently, an angel gets its wings--this helps me cope....