Obama will not yield on drugs decriminalization and Cuba policies

Friday, April 13th 2012 - 07:30 UTC

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US President Barack Obama arrives Friday night in Colombia for the sixth Summit of the Americas where he is expected to hang tough on Washington's anti-narcotics and Cuba policies, positions ever-more unpopular in a region drifting away from US dominance. Read full article

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Idlehands
I believe that decriminalisation probably is the better of two evils.

South American states don't have the reources or capabilities to defeat the drug cartels - they have become too rich and powerful.
Apr 13th, 2012 - 11:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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GreekYoghurt
Better to just decriminalize drugs...take the value out of the market for a few years so people stop growing the plants in the first place and then use taxes to fund widespread drug-rehabilitation programmes and medical care for addicts.

drug use is just another disease.
Apr 13th, 2012 - 02:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Marcos Alejandro
Don't do drugs and problem solved.
Apr 13th, 2012 - 05:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Stefan
Some of the most effective campaigns to end drug use have been in Japan and Singapore. Our Eastern neighbors may hold the key to ending this sick disease for good. It has killed so many, Houston being the latest.
Apr 13th, 2012 - 10:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Fido Dido
Obama thinks decriminalization of drugs is “a legitimate debate”.

but he or any other US president will never “decriminalize” drugs because his buddies “the banksters” don't make money out of it when it's legal. Illegal is far more profitable, and that's what it's all about.

Reminder, an “opinion” based on facts of the two biggest laundries of criminal(s) and drug money : http://en.mercopress.com/2011/04/04/london-and-new-york-two-biggest-laundries-of-criminal-and-drug-money

And this, listen good to the clown of Fox news who talks with the US soldiers who are “protecting” the “people/growers in Afghanistan. listen to their ”exuses”. Note: Afghanistan that became the largest producer of not only of opium and marijuana/hemp.
http://en.mercopress.com/2011/04/04/london-and-new-york-two-biggest-laundries-of-criminal-and-drug-money
Apr 13th, 2012 - 11:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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tobias
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Did the USA defeat the cartels and gangsters during Prohibition? They were just as incapable and worthless in the cause as the Mexicans, Peruvians and Colombians are today.

Criminalizing consumption has NEVER IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD, stopped consumption. The USA surrendered with their war on tipsy. It's time the same be afforded to the Colombian and Mexican people.
Apr 14th, 2012 - 12:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Stefan
@6 - Actually, criminalizing consumption has worked in Singapore. Good luck finding drugs there. The problem is, you either have to go to one extreme or the other. The middle way doesn't work.
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Truth_Telling_Troll
You compare a city-state with a nation like Mexico for example with thousands of square kilometers of border and remote badlands? Really?
Apr 14th, 2012 - 10:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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