Mexico president-elect says will look at legalizing some drugs

[Peter1469]

Mexico president-elect says will look at legalizing some drugs

It will be interesting to see what comes of this, and if some drugs are legalized what affect will it have on the cartels.

Mexico's President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Sunday that he would consider legalizing certain drugs as part of a broader strategy to fight poverty and crime.

Speaking in the state of Zacatecas, Lopez Obrador said that a recent proposal from the country's defense minister, who backed legalization of opium for medicinal use, was important and that he would not rule out anything.


"It's important what he proposed," Lopez Obrador said. "There should be a comprehensive approach to the terrible problem of insecurity and violence."


Lopez Obrador, who takes office on Dec. 1, said on Sunday that he would also look at paying farmers more for their corn as a way to dissuade them from planting poppy seeds.


Since 2006, Mexico has been mired in a military-led battle against drug gangs, which have now splintered into smaller groups that fight for trafficking routes and territory to sell drugs. Homicides hit a record in 2017, data from statistics body INEGI shows.


The president-elect has held town-hall reviews on violence and discuss potential "amnesty" for non-violent drug traffickers and farmers. Members of his team have previously said Mexico would evaluate creating legal markets for marijuana as well as opium. (Reporting by Mexico City Newsroom Editing by Marguerita Choy)

[Common]

They will just export more

[Peter1469]

They will just export more

Fentanyl is hurting Mexican cartel business because it is easily made locally so it does not need to be smuggled into the country.

[Common Sense]

Fentanyl is hurting Mexican cartel business because it is easily made locally so it does not need to be smuggled into the country.

I've heard the opposite. Fentanyl is mainly imported, from what I've read. A small portion is from legitimate prescriptions but the majority is imported from China and Mexico.

As to Mexican drug legalization, it's probably just going to be pot. I doubt the cartels are the huge revenues from weed that they used to. Coke and other narcotics are far more lucrative...coke being number one.

On a side note, pot is about to be legal nation wide in Canada October 17th.

[Peter1469]

I've heard the opposite. Fentanyl is mainly imported, from what I've read. A small portion is from legitimate prescriptions but the majority is imported from China and Mexico.

As to Mexican drug legalization, it's probably just going to be pot. I doubt the cartels are the huge revenues from weed that they used to. Coke and other narcotics are far more lucrative...coke being number one.

On a side note, pot is about to be legal nation wide in Canada October 17th.

The article also mentioned opium - for medical use only.

[Peter1469]

I've heard the opposite. Fentanyl is mainly imported, from what I've read. A small portion is from legitimate prescriptions but the majority is imported from China and Mexico.

As to Mexican drug legalization, it's probably just going to be pot. I doubt the cartels are the huge revenues from weed that they used to. Coke and other narcotics are far more lucrative...coke being number one.

On a side note, pot is about to be legal nation wide in Canada October 17th.

In the past fentanyl was imported from China and Mexico (China used the USPS). But illicit labs are popping up in the US because it is very easy to make.

[HawkTheSlayer]

There is a huge demand for Mexican "Black tar" heroin. It's cheap and deadly.
Inferior to Afghan heroin but heavily laced with fentanyl, it has become to go to heroin in the states.
Fentanyl being 50-60 times stronger the heroin accounts for many of the increased opioid deaths.
A hot batch, with too much fentanyl will kill dozens at a time.
A timely dose of Narcan(naloxone) is the only hope.

[Peter1469]

There is a huge demand for Mexican "Black tar" heroin. It's cheap and deadly.
Inferior to Afghan heroin but heavily laced with fentanyl, it has become to go to heroin in the states.
Fentanyl being 50-60 times stronger the heroin accounts for many of the increased opioid deaths.
A hot batch, with too much fentanyl will kill dozens at a time.
A timely dose of Narcan(naloxone) is the only hope.

I imagine atropine would work too.

[HawkTheSlayer]

I imagine atropine would work too.

The thing is, heroin addicts don't die anymore. All the emt's and hospitals are equipped with narcan and in some localities it is distributed to addicts free of charge.
Even if incapacitated, anyone can inject the narcan and save the addict.

[Mini Me]

Fentanyl is hurting Mexican cartel business because it is easily made locally so it does not need to be smuggled into the country.

I had read that a lot of fentanyl comes from China.
As well as a lot of epehedrine used to make meth.