Decriminalization.

 
At a NYE party, the marijuana topic came up, as it does when people are smoking, or hanging out with weed smokers.
 
A guy Sam works with, said "Why legalize just weed, legalize everything". At the time I thought he was crazy. There’s very dangerous implications with hard drugs, that weed just doesn’t carry.
 
But, he might be right. Why not? It’s not the drug use, it’s the drug game that’s much more dangerous as a whole. If hard drugs were regulated (Amsterdam), or de-criminalizes (Mexico), it might stop some of the violence caused by the action of running and trafficking drugs.
 
Being at my parents place I’ve been pretty bored, so I took up knitting. Sam had mentioned me to listen to Honey Honey Band (amazing!), and he always tells me I’d like Joe Rogan’s podcasts. 
 
So I threw on one yesterday, and thought today why not listen to another. So I picked one that was already downloaded, featuring a phone in with Shane Smith (Vice), who is in Mexico living with the Romney’s who left the US, to practice polygamist marriage in Mexico.
 
Well, today they no longer practice polygamy, but they still call Mexico home, and although they were in support of Romney’s Presidential run, two things they disagreed with were his stance on immigration (his father actually entered the US illegally after living in Mexico), and his war on drugs.
 
They are (at the time of the podcast) were living in the Mexican drug war, and have lived through some of the worst parts of this drug war, and had set up snipers and such to protect themselves from the interference they were finding from the drug cartels.
 
Anyhow, today Mexico has decriminalized all drugs, and were are not hearing as much about the mass killings and violence.
 
I mean, drug use is going to continue, but maybe the legalization, will help the violence surrounding the manufacturing, trafficking and running of drugs.
 
I think it’s worth a listen. Shane Smith is from Montreal, and he started Vice magazine a long while ago. He goes to the scariest places on earth, just to bring attention to us sheltered people, who really, when you think about it, we have no clue what’s really going on.