Drug Legalization Marches in Latin America
Posted: Monday, September 21, 2009
by Aurelia Masterson
Panama Legal
Executive Summary – The drug laws are not working. Everyone knows this. Eighty percent of the people in the massive USA prison system are locked up for drugs or drug related reasons. If the other countries legalize drugs, drop the victimless crime of money laundering (almost always tied to drugs so if drugs legal, then the money is not implicated in money laundering as fruits of a crime) then certain one world order governments will have nothing to bother foreign governments about.
Who Has Legalized What – Below we have a list of countries in Latin America that have legalized drugs and what exactly is legalized.
Mexico – Mexico has passed a law eliminating criminal penalties for possessing small amount of Marijuana (5 grams is maximum allowed), Cocaine (half of a gram), Heroin (50 milligrams), LSD (o15 milligrams), Methamphetamine (40 milligrams). You can have this amount of each drug at the same time in your possession.
Brazil – They are moving towards eliminating jail time for people possessing small amounts of drugs for personal use.
Argentina – Their Supreme Court said it is illegal to criminally prosecute anyone for small-scale use of marijuana.
Ecuador - They are looking at legalizing small amount for personally possessed drugs like Argentina.
Peru – They allow the sale of Coca Leaf. This is what cocaine is made from. You can buy the leaf itself in bulk, and tea and ice cream made with coca leaf in it.
Venezuela – Coca leaf is for sale openly here as well.
Bolivia -Coca leaf is legal and openly for sale here.
Predictions – The real fix comes with full legalization including cultivation, sale and distribution (not exportation). This is what will end the problem. This is a toe in the water movement. Sooner or later it is expected that one country will go to full legalization of all drugs. If the USA hangs tough in their fight against drugs they will then be swamped with drug problems. Prices of drugs would go down drastically and thus usage would go up. This could be another crisis allowing Obama to increase federal police to fight the new enhanced war on drugs.
Drug Tourism – This will be a new cottage industry soon. All-inclusive hotels offering a drug buffet as well as a food buffet. USA citizens can be charged with crimes for doing something outside of the USA that would be illegal in the USA even though it is legal in the jurisdiction where you did it. This was first tested when the USA agents conducted a raid in Thailand arresting men for having paid sexual relations with under age Thai prostitutes. They were deported to USA and charged with having sex with minors since they were USA property, excuse me citizens. So consider DEA agents without anything better to do going to these new drug tourist resorts with cameras filming everyone using drugs. Then they compare to passport pictures of those going to the country recently and arrest them using the pictures as evidence. So remind the countries to make it illegal to film anyone in a drug resort.
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