The Mexican government is attempting a trade. In exchange for thousands of migrant workers doing hard labor for pennies on the dollar, they are willing to take on our idle youth. Under new legislation that is awaiting only the signature of President Vicente Fox, "Mexicans would be allowed to posses 2.2 pounds of peyote, the button-sized hallucinogenic cactus used in some Indian religious ceremonies.
Police would no longer bother with possession of up to 25 milligrams of heroin, 5 grams of marijuana (about one-fifth of an ounce, or about four joints), or 0.5 grams of cocaine — the equivalent of about 4 "lines," or half the standard street-sale quantity.
The law lays out allowable quantities for a large array of other drugs, including LSD, MDA, MDMA (ecstasy, about two pills' worth), and amphetamines."
So Mexico gets the recreational drug users (and Rush Limbaugh) and we get our lettuce picked cheaply.
2 comments:
This won't end well. Mexican police will have to engage in an entirely different kind of corruption to make up for their loss of bribes.
Thank you for a good laugh before 8 am on a Saturday.
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