Yep, that’s pretty much how we remember Mexican weed This whole Mexican drug fiasco seems to be another Meaning that drugs wouldn’t be legal, exactly, just that the local gendarmes would have the choice of extracting reasonable Meanwhile, the Feds will go for the really big bribes But once the US press got hold of the story, and miscast Too bad. Even if the reefer sucks, we’ve heard the mushrooms from the AP<\/a>\n <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MEXICO CITY – Demonstrators pretend to smoke fake marijuana cigarettes during a protest for the decriminalization of marijuana in La Alameda park, in this May 4, 2002 file photo in Mexico City. Police and business owners from Mexico’s beaches to … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/giantjoints.jpg\")
MEXICO
\n CITY – Demonstrators pretend to smoke fake marijuana cigarettes during
\n a protest for the decriminalization of marijuana
\n in La Alameda park, in this May 4, 2002 file photo in Mexico City. Police
\n and business owners from Mexico’s beaches to border cities worried that
\n a measure just passed to decriminalize possession of cocaine, heroin
\n and other drugs could attract droves of tourists solely looking to get
\n high. (05\/01\/06 AP
\n photo<\/a>)<\/p>\n
\n from back in the day: cheap and plentiful, but you had to roll huge fucking
\n joints to get a decent buzz.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n example of the primacy of spin over substance. As we understand it,
\n the original
\n measure was designed to strengthen prosecution by the Federal Drug Police
\n of dealers, narcotraficantes and major miscreants, while leaving the
\n nickel and dime trade (including foreign tourists) to the discretion
\n of the local cops.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n fines and
\n administrative costs for processing stoners caught possessing or consuming
\n drugs in public. Getting caught would cost 2 or 3 hours in some crummy
\n police station and 2 or 3 hundred bucks in "fines", without the necessity
\n of clogging the Mexican jails with idiot Gringo wastrels. Basically,
\n a more formal and efficient version of the time-honored payoff system
\n in place for generations.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n and payoffs concordant with prosecutions of the big fish, and everybody
\n will get a slice of the drug pie. So the whole thing was just a novel
\n and efficient distribution of law enforcement graft.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n it as a nefarious Drug Legalization aiming harpoons at the soft underbelly
\n of American indolence, the plan was doomed. <\/em><\/p>\n
\n kick ass.<\/em><\/p>\n