raises the urgency to discuss this topic to reach a consensus point of view class of organizations that claim to be working class. We start from the standpoint of history
researcher at the University of Chihuahua and Mexican political analyst.
MEXICO: legalize drugs?
Orozco Victor Orozco
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09/05/1910 On Wednesday, at the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez, organized a panel to discuss this single question. Invited to participate in the event I began to question because we are now putting the issue on the political agenda. The answer seems obvious, but is indispensable since it is the premise that necessarily matches: Mexicans are caught in a war (or as you call this hell), which are losing tens of thousands of lives, suffering massive forced migrations, throwing in a bottomless pit untold riches and which also are sinking hundreds of thousands of businesses. Worse perhaps is the impossibility of peaceful coexistence, as we move towards the disintegration of a corporation organized under moral and legal norms. Looking at them very far from our environment, old always caused us surprise ethnic massacres in other parts of the world. Today, we witness the daily massacres in much of the country. The last, the seventy-two Central and South American migrants helpless, horrified not only by the brutality, but because there is evidence of complicity or participation official bodies.
The government, churches, certainly not all in the same grade-schools and in general each of the instances where a person's conscience or are educated to respect the law, are a failure . President of the Republic can not think of anything else to explain it to come up with the silly cliché that young people have turned away from God as if to add something to the eternal whine of the administrators of religious worship. No. Who has moved away from young people is society, confining the majority in poverty and despair. No work, no schools, no opportunities: this is the reality for millions. Al least one side of reality. The other is the open door of crime, mainly derived from drug trafficking. It is the entrance to a space of fear, alienation and abdication of the will, paradoxically, the only option offered to the losers insuperable condition of marginal in an alien world, the prerogative of a few owners.
The other owners are the bosses of the drug market. Change often, because they die too often, but there are always those who take the releve and the post office. Therefore, ring hollow and even ridiculous the claims of victories that make government spokesmen when police the army or navy eliminate any of them. How insignificant are also burning or destruction of plantation after plantation of marijuana or paste or powder deposits of heroin. Drug along with its broken, the hundreds or thousands of weapons, air ships, vehicles seized have increased the numbers of drug addicts and murders, including those of thousands of innocent people without any connection to illegal activities.
These are powerful and unavoidable reasons has now been put on the table for discussion the issue of drug legalization. Its prohibition and frontal combat with those who market appear to have led to disaster in which we live. There is no way out. I discuss below some of the reasons given by those who are fully convinced that legalization would be a plausible way of solution:
would decrease violence in the streets and the disintegration of social fabric. Both are directly linked to the dispute over the squares and the dominance of routes to major consumption centers, especially the U.S.,
be blinded by one of the biggest sources of corruption, derived the alliance between drug traffickers and government officials, from top officials to local police,
dramatically would reduce drug prices and hence the accumulation of wealth by the drug lords,
It would monitor the quality of substances, preventing 80% of deaths from consumption, originating in artificial aggregates to the original drug,
would no longer be wasting hundreds of billions of dollars a struggle that makes no sense because it is impossible to end it,
campaigns could be implemented to prevent and discourage consumption much more effective. The success in significantly reducing smoking, is an example of this.
It would remove one of the pretexts of governments to inflate to the military and human rights abuses,
be eliminated one of the pretexts put forward by government agencies American and U.S. groups that show a more aggressive towards Latin American countries to assemble in the same interventionist actions,
One question remains unanswered me "legalization would decrease the consumption of drugs?. Those who argue that fighting the proposal would increase. We do not know, but perhaps what matters most to the huge majority do not addicted is to avoid the evils resulting from the defect side. Heavy smokers, for example, do not harm others if you take some minimal precautions, though of course, society pays the price for premature deaths and costs of smoking-related illnesses.
Find medicine for a sick society as it is today Mexico, is certainly an arduous task. In view results, we know that the measures taken by the government rather than relief, led to the escalation of evil. We will be able to sing a victory when the living conditions and opportunities for the achievement of individuals or communities have improved substantially. This will raise their sights above the miseries to which they are washed daily.
Meanwhile remedies should be sought. In 1934, just took office as U.S. president, Franklin D Roosevelt announced that rehearse over and over possible solutions to the economic crisis. If an attempt fails, he argued, will undertake a second a third and so follow him, but the worst thing I can do is stand idly by while millions of families have only the essentials for survival. Not worth considering here whether it succeeded or not the effort, but if the weight is attitude so necessary in today's Mexico.
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Victor Orozco, professor of history at the University of Chihuahua and political analyst Mexican.
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