Saturday, April 29, 2006
Mexico Gets High
And the high-hats in Washington have their panties in a righteous bunch.
Read the post here first.
Now I will say, I kind of agree with Vicente Fox.
And ultimately with Denis Leary, though not on the same level as the President of Mexico.
Not less drugs, more drugs (Leary says give them to the right f-in people), which is a comedic statement that leads into a very funny bit.
Seriously though, on a Fox level...
Fox wants to decriminalize small amounts of heroine, cocaine, etc.
Why not?
He is right, Mexico's main problem is big drugs, not small ones.
Take the drinking issue in this country for example.
We are one of the very few countries (perhaps the only country, I can't think of any others right now, but wish to give the benefit of the doubt) who have set the legal drinking age to 21. I know for a fact that this is a nation wide problem, but I will speak from Tucson, because she is who I know best.
I live close to the University.
There is a crackdown on alcohol around these parts the likes of which I have never seen anywhere else. There are orange stickers on every other house and I am to afraid even walk to the bars close to my home in fear of being arrested for public drunkenness; even though I am walking to ensure I will not drive drunk.
Underage drinking is a serious problem in this country and our alcoholism rate is through the roof.
Why?
Scotland doesn't have this problem. Neither does Germany or France. You can begin drinking at 18 there, and believe me they do.
But the alcoholism rate isn't a fraction of ours.
And the kids, with built in pubs in the dorms and all, seem to be able to get their school work done and also manage to receive better educations than we do.
Remember when you were a kid and your mom said "no, you can't go over there," or "no, you can't eat that?"
What was the first thing you wanted to do.
It was to go there, or to eat that.
Do you think that changes?
Do you think that our ability to rebel forgets about us sometime shortly after puberty?
It doesn't, we always have it.
Europe does better with alcohol because it doesn't make it a taboo subject. It makes it readily available, and sequentially people want it less and less, and certainly become less and less dependent upon it, because they are not drinking it to stick it to the man. And if you don't have a reason to drink, it gets old real fast, as any alcohol drinker will be quick to tell you.
Not less drugs, more drugs translates into:
stop trying to be our mothers and let us decide for ourselves, and we may prove to you that we actually have brains. We can actually think.
More power to you Fox.
Read the post here first.
Now I will say, I kind of agree with Vicente Fox.
And ultimately with Denis Leary, though not on the same level as the President of Mexico.
Not less drugs, more drugs (Leary says give them to the right f-in people), which is a comedic statement that leads into a very funny bit.
Seriously though, on a Fox level...
Fox wants to decriminalize small amounts of heroine, cocaine, etc.
Why not?
He is right, Mexico's main problem is big drugs, not small ones.
Take the drinking issue in this country for example.
We are one of the very few countries (perhaps the only country, I can't think of any others right now, but wish to give the benefit of the doubt) who have set the legal drinking age to 21. I know for a fact that this is a nation wide problem, but I will speak from Tucson, because she is who I know best.
I live close to the University.
There is a crackdown on alcohol around these parts the likes of which I have never seen anywhere else. There are orange stickers on every other house and I am to afraid even walk to the bars close to my home in fear of being arrested for public drunkenness; even though I am walking to ensure I will not drive drunk.
Underage drinking is a serious problem in this country and our alcoholism rate is through the roof.
Why?
Scotland doesn't have this problem. Neither does Germany or France. You can begin drinking at 18 there, and believe me they do.
But the alcoholism rate isn't a fraction of ours.
And the kids, with built in pubs in the dorms and all, seem to be able to get their school work done and also manage to receive better educations than we do.
Remember when you were a kid and your mom said "no, you can't go over there," or "no, you can't eat that?"
What was the first thing you wanted to do.
It was to go there, or to eat that.
Do you think that changes?
Do you think that our ability to rebel forgets about us sometime shortly after puberty?
It doesn't, we always have it.
Europe does better with alcohol because it doesn't make it a taboo subject. It makes it readily available, and sequentially people want it less and less, and certainly become less and less dependent upon it, because they are not drinking it to stick it to the man. And if you don't have a reason to drink, it gets old real fast, as any alcohol drinker will be quick to tell you.
Not less drugs, more drugs translates into:
stop trying to be our mothers and let us decide for ourselves, and we may prove to you that we actually have brains. We can actually think.
More power to you Fox.
