Bush wants $1.4 billion for Mexico drug war

[AndyMarquisLIVE (Premo)]

Originally Posted by This_person

We need to stop going after the people selling drugs, and start prosecuting people for using drugs. Do drugs, and you get a taxpayer funded trip to rehab, to rest up for your next bout. Sell drugs, and you go to jail, only to be replaced in a split second by someone else. If we get rid of the demand, the supply will stop all by itself.

Make using a huge fine, based upon your income so that it's not just a tax for rich people (15% of your annual wages, or something like that).

... what harm is someone causing to society by smoking pot in their own homes?

The drug isn't the problem, the laws are. If the chit wasn't illegal to start with, then there'd be no gang wars over weed, no illegal drug dealers, and then our prisons would be able to hold sex predators.

Instead, we make it illegal and hold people in prison for years for smoking a relatively harmless substance and then about the prisons are overcrowded so we have to let sexual predators walk the streets.

[forestal]

We can borrow it from the Chinese banks, and make our kids pay it off, with interest!!!

[ImnoMensa]

Originally Posted by MMDad

What George doesn't understand is that we are sick of "assisting" Mexico with OUR problem. They have no reason or desire to fix OUR problem. They care about their problems, not OUR problem.

Every penny of that $1.4 billion needs to go to shutting down OUR border to fix OUR problem. If the drugs cannot make it over the border, they can't be sold. Mexico's drug gang problem goes away. Problem solved.

Sending money to Mexico is just like the sewage plant they put in Tijuana to stop their pollution from crossing into San Diego. We payed the money, they built the plant, and now it doesn't work. Why? Because it isn't their problem, it's OUR problem, and they don't care. We need to dam up that foul trickle of sewage they call a river and let it be their problem.

Damn: Did you hit that nail on the head. Your Post is 100% correct.

The police and military of Mexico are so corrupt, what good is sending money?

I wouldn't send them a lead penny. They have oil money if they really want to shut down their drug dealings they can afford it on their own. Of course they don't want to because half the police and military and the Government are dealers per se'

[This_person]

Originally Posted by AndyMarquisLIVE

... what harm is someone causing to society by smoking pot in their own homes?

The drug isn't the problem, the laws are. If the chit wasn't illegal to start with, then there'd be no gang wars over weed, no illegal drug dealers, and then our prisons would be able to hold sex predators.

Instead, we make it illegal and hold people in prison for years for smoking a relatively harmless substance and then about the prisons are overcrowded so we have to let sexual predators walk the streets.

Honestly, it's only slightly more harmful than alcohol. Like other drugs, pot is a controlled substance. Your thought process could go to heroin, codeine (sp?), etc., etc. The question is where to draw the line. We've drawn it.

Like I said before, I wouldn't imprison the users, for the reasons you state above. I'd fine 'em. And, make the fine be tied to their net worth so that it's the same fine for Lindsey and Brittany as it would be for you and I - the same pain, that is. Basically, tax it out of existence, like people are trying to do with alcohol and cigarettes.

[vraiblonde]

Originally Posted by Sharon

Bush needs a good up against his head.

I second that emotion

[AndyMarquisLIVE (Premo)]

Bush wants $1.4 billion... 10-23-2007 01:38 PM If you weren't always stoned, you'd know what's stupid about your ideas.

[terror_buster]

Right...and then we have states like ours, Maryland, that is considered a "sanctuary state" and caters to illegal aliens...time to move out...