exico’s president released a new plan last week that called for radical reform to the nation’s drug laws and negotiating with the United States to take similar steps.
The plan put forward by the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, often referred to by his initials as AMLO, calls for decriminalizing illegal drugs and transferring funding for combating the illicit substances to pay for treatment programs instead. It points to the failure of the decades-long international war on drugs, and calls for negotiating with the international community, and specifically the U.S., to ensure the new strategy’s success.
“The ‘war on drugs’ has escalated the public health problem posed by currently banned substances to a public safety crisis,” the policy proposal, which came as part of AMLO’s National Development Plan for 2019-2024, read. Mexico’s current “prohibitionist strategy is unsustainable,” it argued. newsweek.com/mexico-decriminalize-drugs-negotiate-us-1421395
AMLO (The Current President of Mexico) is a follower of the philosophy of Lázaro Cárdenas. Cárdenas was a general during the revolution, and served as President of Mexico from 1934-1940. Cárdenas was a progressive who instituted vast reforms in a lot of areas. AMLO uses Cárdenas strategies as his own. Forgoing fancy vehicles, a presidential palace, or even bodyguards are just a few of Cárdenas moves that AMLO has copied. Now in his last year in office, Cárdenas put forth perhaps his most progressive reform yet. Full decriminalization of all drugs. Addicts were given prescriptions at 1/20th of the street cost, and their rehabilitation was overseen by physicians and pharmacists. Killing criminals' profits while also treating addiction as the disease that it is.
Unfortunately, six months later Mexico was forced to repeal the law due to a threat of a pharmaceutical boycott by the US Government.
It seems AMLO is trying to finish what Cárdenas started.
Carter Jackson
You can't. That would just prove that the moral outrage of two generations was just malevolent ignorance empowered by the state.
Christopher Collins
Mexico doesnt understand that if drugs were legalized we would freely import from global market and not their shitty cartel state.
Gabriel Cooper
But how will tyrone get money
Samuel Fisher
this, it's funny that legalizing drugs would ruin mexican drug economy
