Getting High With a Little Help From My Friends
During the days of the Watergate Hearings in the Seventies, there was another news story that rarely made it to the front pages. That story was out of Chicago, and it concerned the civil suit brought by a small radio dispatching service really, called MCI, which eventually led to the break-up of AT&T. After Watergate politics was still pretty much the same. After AT&T our world changed dramatically.
With the MSM’s focus on immigration these days, it may be easy to overlook what is happening in Mexico as it moves toward the most radical decriminalization of drugs of any country in the world – including Holland.
Personal possession of cocaine, heroin, LSD – drugs natural and synthetic; boutique drugs, traditional hallucinogenics like mescaline and peyote; uppers downers all arounders. They will all essentially be legal, or at least devoid of criminal sanctions in the context of personal use.
It will be interesting to see how this bold experiment affects our culture here in the states as well as with our southern neighbors. My initial take on it is that it will have a greater impact here than there. But we shall see.
Here is the article in the LA Times.