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Mexico Decriminalizes Small Amounts of Marijuana...

Today, Mexico decriminalized small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin.  

The new law sets out maximum "personal use" amounts for drugs, also including LSD and methamphetamine. People detained with those quantities no longer face criminal prosecution.

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Mexico decriminalizes small-scale drug possession

Aug 21 04:58 AM US/Eastern
By MARK STEVENSON
Associated Press Writer

Public Marijuana Grows Need More Focus

More law enforcement dollars and resources need to be focused on on Illegal Marijuana grows on public lands.

NEVER talk to Police

A friend of mine sent me a link to this clip a couple of weeks ago, and I am just now getting around to sharing it with you. As long as I have known him, my friend has always contended that no one should ever talk to a cop for any reason. I always agreed with him, but did not have a deep understanding of how important his view was on this subject until I watched the following clip. 

Mr. James Duane, a professor at Regent Law School and a former defense attorney, tells you why you should never agree to be interviewed by the police.

Phish: More Victims of the War on Drugs

31 people were arrested at a Phish concert on drug charges last Saturday.

Howard police make drug bust at Phish concert in Columbia -- baltimoresun.com.

Do you think they got them all? Did the arrests do anything to reduce drug use? What was more harmful, the drugs or the arrests?

A Brief List of People Who Have Smoked Marijuana

Another list of people who have smoked marijuana from AskThemWhy.org

Barack Obama, president-elect. 
Bill Clinton, 42nd president of the U.S. 
John Kerry, U.S. Senator and 2004 Democratic nominee for president. 
John Edwards, multi-millionaire, former U.S. Senator, and 2004 Democratic nominee for vice president. 
Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska, 2008 Republican nominee for vice president. 
Stephen King
Rodney Dangerfield
Jon Stewart
Academy-award winning filmmaker Steven Spielberg
Josh Howard, NBA all-star. 
President George W. Bush
New York Governor David Paterson. 
Former Vice President, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and Oscar winner Al Gore. 
Former Sen. Bill Bradley, who smoked while playing professional basketball. 
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, 
former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich,
former New York Governor George Pataki. 
Billionaire and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Carl Sagan, award-winning author and astronomer
Montel Williams
television writer/producer Aaron Sorkin
Late paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. 
John Wayne
William F. Buckley
Miles Davis
Bill Maher
Tom Brokaw
Harrison Ford
Billionaire tycoon Richard Branson
US Senator from Minnesota Norm Coleman 
Robert Mitchum
children's author Shel Silverstein
Pierce Brosnan
Bill Murray
Louis Armstrong
Jack Black
Dan Aykroyd

Now what if they were treated like this? WARNING: THE FOLLOWING VIDEO IS VERY GRAPHIC AND VERY DISTURBING!! ADULTS ONLY!

Busting Growers Seems Futile

I am in favor of decriminalization of marijuana and I don't support growers of marijuana because it is still illegal, but it occurs to me that locating plants and pulling them up is becoming futile and is at best a waste of law enforcement resources. 

In just the past two days I have read about large crops of marijuana being pulled up and destroyed by law enforcement in West Virginia and Colorado. I am sure you may have heard of others. 

Does law enforcement really think that they can eradicate all of the marijuana in the U.S.? I would like to know, either way. If they don't, then how can they justify taking tax payer dollars to perform a job that they know doesn't make a difference?

If they do believe that they are making a difference, by reducing the amount of marijuana grown in the U.S., don't they ever think that people who smoke marijuana are going to purchase their weed from elsewhere, say Mexico?