BajaNomad - Mexico city to legalize marijuana?

Mexico city to legalize marijuana?

BajaBad - 5-12-2009 at 10:35 AM

Just saw this online when researching something - have no idea how it´s playing out but those who hashed this issue back and forth awhiles back... may be interested in this article:

Latin America: Mexico City to Decriminalize Marijuana Possession?

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/558/mexico_city_federal_...

Go Mexico. BajaBad

Relocation & Real Estate Guide - http://www.vivalabaja.com
Viva La Baja! Blog - http://vivalabaja.blogspot.com

ELINVESTIG8R - 5-12-2009 at 10:42 AM

If this is true and they are going to open up shops to sell marihuana I hope they sell the good high concentrate delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol stuff and not that crap they grow in the arroyos and canyons of Baja California. If I am going to smoke it for the first time I want a good doobie.

DENNIS - 5-12-2009 at 10:46 AM

If every person in DF were to smoke dope night and day, the air quality could only improve.

Amen to the Amen !

Mulegena - 5-12-2009 at 11:09 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by DENNIS
If every person in DF were to smoke dope night and day, the air quality could only improve.

Martyman - 5-12-2009 at 11:24 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by ELINVESTI8
If this is true and they are going to open up shops to sell marihuana I hope they sell the good high concentrate delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol stuff and not that crap they grow in the arroyos and canyons of Baja California. If I am going to smoke it for the first time I want a good doobie.

Will there be a shop in BOLA? It will be my first time too.

DENNIS - 5-12-2009 at 11:27 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Martyman

Will there be a shop in BOLA? It will be my first time too.

C'mon you guys. What???? You didn't grow up on earth?

Martyman - 5-12-2009 at 11:39 AM

I was joking. Actually I have weed caches throughout the peninsula that are on my GPS. There is one at the turnoff to San Nicolas that uhhh...what was I saying??

Cypress - 5-12-2009 at 11:53 AM

Somebody ought to legalize it. Tobacco's legal. Alcohol's legal. Jeez, half the kids in US schools are being dosed with this or that by their so-called counselors. Bored in class? Dose 'em!!! Problems? Dose 'em. Legalize pot!!! Let the kids dose themselves!! By the way, I don't smoke pot, but it ought to be legal.

DENNIS - 5-12-2009 at 11:56 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Martyman
I was joking. Actually I have weed caches throughout the peninsula that are on my GPS. There is one at the turnoff to San Nicolas that uhhh...what was I saying??

Bajahowodd - 5-12-2009 at 12:05 PM

Don't know if I'd hold my breath. Hmmm. Maybe for a few seconds. I recently read an article suggesting that decriminalizing or legalizing pot in Mexico would actually go a long way to cut the demand being filled by the cartels. Surprisingly, Mexico has a rather high per capita use of pot. However, the same article noted that while approximately 42% of Americans are for decriminalizing pot in the US, only about 20% of Mexicans felt the same about decriminalizing in Mexico. But then, when has democracy ever really gotten in the way of the government?

ELINVESTIG8R - 5-12-2009 at 12:07 PM

I was always busting the dopers. Now it's my turn to try a doobie since I am no longer obligated to not do it. I want to try the "Good Stuff." :lol:

woody with a view - 5-12-2009 at 12:14 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by ELINVESTI8
I was always busting the dopers. Now it's my turn to try a doobie since I am no longer obligated to not do it. I want to try the "Good Stuff." :lol:

prepare to drag your chilito in the dirt. it ain't the same stuff, like you said. tha'ts why i quit! :lol:

[Edited on 5-12-2009 by woody in ob]

gnukid - 5-12-2009 at 12:37 PM

On April 23,2009 Mexican Congress' last day in normal session and the same day President Felipe Calderon announced the swine flu pandemic, federal legislators voted to decriminalize simple drug possession in Mexico. They passed the new drug law, along with about sixty other bills, with very little debate despite their controversial nature. President Felipe Calderon has not yet signed the bill, but he is expected to.

http://www.elmanana.com.mx/notas.asp?id=118775

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/kristin-bricker/20...

http://www.cupihd.org/

capt. mike - 5-12-2009 at 12:55 PM

only dopes do dope. :lol:

i have often been asked if i was on something.
i say of course. i am on duty.

backninedan - 5-12-2009 at 03:47 PM

I tried it once, but didn't exhale..

Bajahowodd - 5-12-2009 at 04:07 PM

It really doesn't seem that stoners are going to find their Valhalla in Mexico City any time soon. The legislation passed, but not yet signed by by Calderone is similar to the legislation passed during the Fox administration. Fox did not sign it under pressure from the Bush administration.

I wonder how many nomads are aware that up until 1937, heroin, cocaine and marijuana were not illegal in the US. With the repeal of prohibition, the same folks that fought long and hard for temperance, turned their attention to the aforementioned drugs. Later, it was that cuddly Nixon guy who really turned down the screws on marijuana as he felt that the "hippies" and other slackers were creating problems for him. That's when pot found itself as classed among the worst of drugs, with penalties being draconian. Fact is, as far as Nixon is concerned, he ran his campaign on ending the Viet Nam war. And he won. But when he tried to run his next campaign on the same agenda, alot of folks weren't buying his BS. There's obviously a long and difficult history with the Viet Nam war. It has been detailed often about the villification of the GIs who fought there. But much less about the fact that pot was widely available and freely used by our troops in Nam. I know. I was there.

[Edited on 5-12-2009 by Bajahowodd]

Oso - 5-12-2009 at 04:20 PM

An attempt to revitalize the badly damaged tourism industry?

Marie-Rose - 5-12-2009 at 04:24 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by ELINVESTI8
I was always busting the dopers. Now it's my turn to try a doobie since I am no longer obligated to not do it. I want to try the "Good Stuff." :lol:

Come on up and try some B.C. bud. (not that I would have any idea of whether it is any good or not

)

Crusoe - 5-12-2009 at 04:48 PM

If Mex. City really does legalize it, it won't be long before Guadalajara, Guaymas, San Carlos, Cabo San Lucas, La Paz, Loreto all follow suit. Can you just visualize the hoards of bonked out teenagers driving along MEX 1 in Baja with their music turnred up full blast,weaving their way among the yellow lanes and Potholes. Yikes!!! ++C++ :lol:

Bajahowodd - 5-12-2009 at 04:52 PM

These are the folks who could have long ago cemented their stake as the worlds biggest destination if they had only legalized casino gambling. You really think you're gonna be able to buy pot legally?

Oso - 5-12-2009 at 05:02 PM

As I understand the legislation, it will NOT be legal to sell, only to possess small amounts. Five grams is like what? One spliff or three skinny joints? So where do they suppose it will come from? Same situation as in the Netherlands, Vandenberg? Not really "Legal", just tolerated as long as discreet?

flyfishinPam - 5-12-2009 at 05:20 PM

if this becomes federal I'll open up an Amsterdam style coffee house woo hoo

Udo - 5-12-2009 at 05:35 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Martyman
I was joking. Actually I have weed caches throughout the peninsula that are on my GPS. There is one at the turnoff to San Nicolas that uhhh...what was I saying??

Martyman:
Por favor...U2U me the location. I'll tell you about the one in Santo Thomas (near the police station).

dao45 - 5-12-2009 at 10:48 PM

OMG I didnt realize it was illegal

Bajajorge - 5-13-2009 at 08:08 AM

I love hypocrites. Light up a legal cigarette and the world howls about secondary smoke killing them. Light up a marijuana doobie and everybody fights to be first in line to take a couple hits. Oh yeah, they need a new tax in CA as they've just about talked everybody out of buying regular cigarettes and cigars.

Coffee House

Loretana - 5-13-2009 at 09:36 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by flyfishinPam
if this becomes federal I'll open up an Amsterdam style coffee house woo hoo

Sounds like a plan, Pam. I've got the excellent Dutch strain, we use it here in Oregon for medicinal purposes! :saint:

motoged - 5-13-2009 at 10:35 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Crusoe
If Mex. City really does legalize it, it won't be long before Guadalajara, Guaymas, San Carlos, Cabo San Lucas, La Paz, Loreto all follow suit. Can you just visualize the hoards of bonked out teenagers driving along MEX 1 in Baja with their music turnred up full blast,weaving their way among the yellow lanes and Potholes. Yikes!!! ++C++ :lol:

Crusoe,
Uh....they are already doing that.... :lol:

motoged - 5-13-2009 at 10:39 PM

:biggrin:

It's so nice to see some folks come out of the closet...

:lol:

Bajahowodd - 5-13-2009 at 11:00 PM

That is actually the dirty and sad little secret about this. If Nixon hadn't wanted to send a message to the anti-war folk, we wouldn't be in this hypocritical situation today.

DENNIS - 5-14-2009 at 05:58 AM

Remember "Operation Intercept?" Google it if you don't. It was one of Nixons biggest blunders with drug interdiction and US/Mex relations. What a nightmare.

Cypress - 5-14-2009 at 06:34 AM

Nixon? Blaming Nixon for the current drug law fiasco is a stretch. We've had several US administrations in the nearly 40 yrs. since his time. They all had the opportunity to change the laws, yet didn't. Maybe the current administration will?

shari - 5-14-2009 at 07:09 AM

Hey Pam...you'd better have lots of munchies at that coffee house...screw the fishing...you'll make a fortune on cookies amiga!

mulegemichael - 5-14-2009 at 07:12 AM

back in about '71 a buddy of mine and i tried getting across the border at tj..nixon had hired snitches and they were on patrol at the border catching anyone with long hair past their collar and turning them back...my amigo had put on a wig to hide his hair but the snitch caught it and we were sent back...we went to the variety store right there on the u.s. side of the border, bought a pair of scissors and cut his hair off in their restroom...walked right back to the same booth with our bedrolls and strolled across..the "nixon" snitch could only watch

backninedan - 5-14-2009 at 10:04 AM

Pam, you will need counter help/taste tester ....keep me in mind.

Bajahowodd - 5-14-2009 at 10:36 AM

Cypress- Here's why I blame Nixon. Recall that until 1937, marijuana and cocaine were not illegal. But it was Nixon's sponsorship of the Controlled Substance Act of 1970 that put marijuana in schedule 1, which deems it to have absolutely no medicinal efficacy. In other words, it is in a class with the worst substances, and thus qualifies for the harshest of penalties.

As for decriminalizing or legalizing, it has taken quite awhile to soften the stigma of its schedule one status. Most recent surveys show that almost half of Americans now believe it should be decriminalized. That's quite a step up from just a few years ago. However, the fact is that until such support becomes a majority, politicians see the idea as a third rail with respect to "values voters".

Cypress - 5-14-2009 at 04:07 PM

Bajahowold, You're welcome to blame anyone you want for the current marijuani laws.

Fact is, 40 yrs. is 40 yrs. There's been a multitude of politicians that have been in the position to change the laws. They haven't. So we're supposed to blame Nixon? :rolleyes:

sourdough - 5-14-2009 at 04:25 PM

Bajahowodd,
Sorry, but the war against maryjane started much earlier than the Nixon years. I still remember the movie "Reefer Madness" which was shown in an auditorium at my Junior high school in the fifties.