Former Mexican President Fox endorses legalization of all drugs, defends Dreamers

[TexasTowelie]

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox says he has solutions for two U.S.-Mexico challenges: legalize all drugs and legalize immigrants known as Dreamers.

Fox is a controversial and complicated figure whose positions on issues on both sides of the border raise eyebrows. He’s promoting his new book Let’s Move On. But he got his fame as the former Coca-Cola executive and rancher who knocked Mexico’s authoritarian Institutional Revolutionary Party out of power after seven decades of rule in 2000.

Noting that governments haven’t been able to find solutions to their people’s drug problems, on Monday the 75-year-old ex-president said once again that legalizing drugs would cut crime and violence.

He also said legalizing those young immigrants with work permits but no pathway to citizenship would mean they could keep contributing to U.S. society. Many are highly educated.

Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/mexico/2018/02/19/former-mexican-president-fox-endorses-legalization-drugs-defends-dreamers

[Cicada]

1. All those drug terrorists unemployed?

Overdose deaths down sharply?

Too logical.

[msongs]

7. police unions dont like it cuz they will lose membership money and power as will all LEO groups nt

[Phoenix61]

2. Portugal decriminalized all drugs in 2001.

Instead of arresting people they focused on providing treatment. HIV rates fell as well as overdose deaths.

[anarch]

3. this is a man who understands all too well the damage that is caused by the war on drugs

well, the war on some drugs...U.S. drug policy is the main reason the cartels have so much power in Mexico.

[Javaman]

4. Law enforcement in this country would collapse from lack of funds if they legalized drugs here. nt

[TexasTowelie]

5. The drug counseling industry would also go belly up.

The war on drugs is good business for the people who have degrees in psychology and sociology.

[Javaman]

6. true to an extent but as human nature dictates, people generally want to be better

and there will still be rehabs for people who have addiction type personalities.