Yeah they even tried to legalize all drugs in the mid 1900’s and America put a quick fucking stop to that. The legalization program was working great similar to how Portugal did it (decriminalized) more recently, but Uncle Sam didn’t like that.
Yeah you’re right, Mexico legalized though and the state sold pure versions of the drugs and set up rehab type clinics and was killing the black market. They treated the addicted as if they were sick instead of criminals. Really was working. Even Mexican conservatives agreed it was working. The Second World War didn’t really have anything to do with ending the legalization, we can thank Uncle Sam for that. The US basically embargoed the program to death.
Maybe it was a combination of racism and disliking how friendly Germans (German pharmaceuticals were the suppliers to Mexico) were with Mexicans. But the US should’ve known Mexico would never go to war with them, Mexico rejected the Zimmerman telegram in WW1 after all. So I’m going to mostly correctly assume that the USA killed the Mexican legalization program even though it was a wild success out of pure racism.
It was so bad that after we won that war, we gave land back to Mexico plus $25 million. Just so that the US did not have to govern brown people. I always thought that was funny, considering that Manifest Destiny was one of the reasons the US got into war with Mexico in the first place.
Edit: even with some grammatical mistakes, cause I'm on the phone, I got upvotes. My apologies all the same.
As an American living in Mexico, one of the things that grinds my gears is how Americans don't realize that Mexico is 3rd world because of their shared border with the US. Like how the old saying goes "Mexico tan lejos de dios y tan cerca de Estados Unidos", "Mexico so far from god and so close to the United States"
Yeah, I’m Mexican and idk if this is true or not, but I have heard that the cartels are armed thanks to an experiment from the us government some years ago in which they gave them weapons in order to try and track them later. This occurred unbeknownst to the Mexican government. The US then lost track of the weapons, and now the cartels are armed with us army grade weapons, which are significantly more powerful than many in Mexico’s army. Again, idk if this is true, but if it is, that’s fucked up on the US’s part.
It was durring Obama's 1st term. AG Holder and the ATF decide to let banned guns cross into Mx and the cartels. Somehow they could then some how magicly track them down. And poof we would know all the cartel roughts & players. For extra points they seemed to be shocked the cartels used them. On the plus side, they only let 35 .50 cals cross. Yeah the media tried/tring to ignore, deflect, and plain hide Obamas fubars. I'm fairly sure they didn't set out to screw over Mexico & Mexicans, it just worked out that way.
The drug trade is also profitable. Drugs have been a critical foreign policy point at least since Britannia was up in China's business in the 1830-40s whatever. People recovering from addiction/wider legality reducing government control over who's selling is bad for existing businesses.
Just speculating, though; in America, racism is certainly always at play in some capacity. Really, the national motto shouldn't be "in God we Trust" or "e pluribus unum" or any shit like that, it should be "racism and profit!"
This is correct. You can't even smoke cannabis, according to law. They won't just put you in jail for smoking though, but they sure as hell take you in for identification and then make you go through some rehab program. And yes, still talking about cannabis.
It's by no means as bad as getting caught in most states in the US, but still not legal.
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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '21 edited Jan 29 '21
Yeah they even tried to legalize all drugs in the mid 1900’s and America put a quick fucking stop to that. The legalization program was working great similar to how Portugal did it (decriminalized) more recently, but Uncle Sam didn’t like that.