What do you think will be the long term affects to the  Mexican Drug Cartels?
360272
They are the foundation of the problem of illegals in the USA that are being used as Mules to bring their ware across the Borders and poison our society.
596630
I doubt it. Investment in Mexico by US citizens is strictly limited. Mexico dose not want immigration from the US and has resisted any measures to affect the drug trade significantly.  La mordida still rules in Mexico. In fact, native Mexicans look down on their American Mexicans cousins. Ironic isn't it.
750365
It will happen in the next race. Mexicans will run this country it is now ours and nothing anybody can do about it
1169073
Well Mexico will go farther..\nbut they don't play each other.\nAt least not yet.
835600
http://www.ask.com/web?q=mexican+drug+laws%3F&qsrc=0&o=0&l=dir&sugreqs=0
723464
not sure...but if its really happening, its bullshyt and will cause a huge backlash toward the ILLEGAL hispanic community......damned beaners
504458
It depends on the drug, some drugs will show for longer then others
293532
Most definitely.  We would earn taxes and save billions in drug enforcement.  And it would get any worse.  \n\nLook at the example of Prohibition.  It never worked except to build up the mafia
334532
That's just one more side of all this problem, and the previous answer is rigth too.. The drugs find most of the consumer in the USA, and meanwhile in Latin America we haven't been able to have the economical growth needed, and that's a very profitable business!!!\n\nBut this is only a part of it, as i have been said, those lots of sides of the story should be known, studied, and solved TOGHETER!\n\nWhy don't we all take a break on this issue, as the congress men, and maybe we'll comeback with a whole bunch of information and good new ideas.lol.
514434
absolutely, Mexico is a good example.  Where a few super rich control the government.  Have drug lords controling the rest.  Keep the populous in abject poverty.  The brutality is over whelming.  The masses could over throw the few and take back there government and establish one that isn't so corrupt.  That would benefit the people.\nimmigrateing to America while understandable is hardly the answer.
672166
The stock market would be perturbed. Other forms of criminality would know a sharp increase. The agriculture of some countries would be severed and so the local economies. Petty crimes would know a rise in some areas. \n\nAccording to the DEA and to many other experts, (illegal) estimates vary. The drug market would represent about 3.5 to 8 percent of the world GDP. This estimate include all by-products, which are cover up companies and business activities, legal fee and lawyer incomes, budgets of drug enforcement administrations, shipping, prisons costs, etc.
584279
Could go either way...It will be interesting to find out.  The law would just make it legal to possess "small" amounts so dealers would still be prosecuted...I think the point was so they could focus their attention on the dealers.  Like, aiming higher on the food chain.  I think if it affects drugs crossing the border, the only difference would be in very small amounts...just the idiots that have it on them for "personal use".
548471
I dont know what a "Mexican issue" would be. If you are talking about illegal immigrants, I think that it is a bad thing that we need to have under control
708212
Eventually I think it will.  It will take a while for the lobbyist to turn them but most of them will turn corrupt as money and power seem to have that effect on humans in general.
379939
WOW DUDE!! THAT'S ALOT OF INFO MAN! I HOPE WE CAN GET SOME WEAPONS BUT ONLY THOSE WITH CLEAN RECORD. U MUST BE A POLITIC OR SOMETHING....ANYWAYS HUM HUH!! ARIVA LA REPUBLICA Y TODO MEXICO CABRONES AGUAAAAAA!!!!LOL
915338
Drug-related crime would go down. Drug-Induced crime would stay about the same.\n\nLegalized drugs would demolish the drug trade. It would also increase tax revenue. It would also diminish the appeal of drugs, since they could be gotten at any specialized store.\n\nBut this would not eliminate all the drug problems. There will always be a difference between those who use the "socially" and those that abuse them. I'd imagine we'd have scenarios similar to alcohol, where there are those that use it in a social situation for a good time but there are others who abuse it.\n\nHowever, compare the user/abuser scenario to what we have now. Billions of dollars each year are funneled into the DEA, fighting a "war" that can never be won. Endles violence from cartel wars down to armed robbery for a fix. The list goes on.\n\nLegalizing it makes the prices go from astronomical to economical. You eliminate the illicit trade crossing the borders. Cartel and gang drug related violence would drop like a rock. And since the use/user is being tracked, it would be much easier to follow those that have bad habits.\n\nPlus, we'd get some amount of cash back in the government for other projects.\n\nThere would still be problems to be sure, but I believe it would be a net positive gain.\n\n~X~
557637
I believe there will be riots...but I think that they will be in Mexico. I think that the people of Mexico deserve to live a life of prosperity in their own country and not have to uproot themselves and flee in the guise of a better life in a foreign land.