Calderon: Drug consumer countries 'morally obliged' to cut demand; consider 'market alternatives'

Source: Foreign Policy


Calderon: Drug consumer countries 'morally obliged' to cut demand; consider 'market alternatives'
Posted By Joshua Keating Wednesday, September 21, 2011 - 11:26 AM

It turns out Mexican President Felipe Calderon's statements on U.S. television hinting at drug legalization this week were a preview of his UNGA speech, in which he suggested "market alternatives" to drug interdiction and singled out the United States specifically. A full text isn't posted yet so these quotes are all from my rushed transcription.

After discussing the Arab Spring, Calderon pivoted, saying, "We have to be aware that organized crime today is killing more people and more young people than all the dictatorial regimes in the world."

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"More than ever, consumer countries, where drugs are consumed, must take effective action to radically cut demand. I will be told that this is not possible. That the demand for drugs continues to rise, as indeed is the case here in the United States, where nearly 30 percent of young people consume drugs. What is the solution?<...>

Consumer countries are morally obliged to reduce the vast economic demand. If you can’t cut it, cut the economic profist. You have to find how to staunch this this demand. Seek out all possible options, including market alternatives, so that drugs trafficking ceases to be a source of violence in Latin America and the Carribean and several African countries.



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But here in the USA anyway, there seems to be a disgraceful resistance
to doing that on the part of government and law enforcement. I think
there is too much money at stake, and they need drug users and dealers
for slave fodder in the prisons.

Gotta keep those profitable prisoners in line. "We"(corporate owned politicians) have "a disgraceful resistance" to many civil practices, ie..,universal health care, fair wealth distribution, education,.., Most things that are equitable, sensible and may affect the profit margin of multi-nationals are considered verboten.

Logic and compassion play no role in our laws. Our government is the largest organized crime enterprise in the world. Anything for profit.

Hopefully, our freedom fighters on Wall St., October 6, in DC and endless demonstrations across America (our citizen participants in democracy) can change these things.

Common sense demands these changes, the resistance is purely profit driven. Democracy has been replaced with capitalism.

You captured the whole irrational spectrum that is USA policy and you name those of us who protest, freedom fighters.
Freedom Fighters. I like it.
We know the MSM will give demonstrators in October the most viscously unflattering label imaginable. Let's beat at their game. Let's take back the language from the hijackers on the Right and use it to our advantage.
Let's call our side the Freedom Fighters.

Has been trying to do for the last 50 years? And it hasn't worked worth a shit.

I get tired of Mexican politicians. I think the single biggest mistake the US ever made was not annexing all of Mexico after the Mexican-American War.

:bounce:

I stopped using cannabis twenty five-plus years ago, but I believe that considering the mayhem that US imports of cannabis helps fuel (Not to mention "narco" growers poaching in national and state forests), people who insist on using it ought to grow their own or buy from a trusted local supplier.

Progressives did it with grapes; they ought to do it with weed.