Mexican waves, Californian cool
Three things to stop the gangs: better police in Mexico, stricter gun laws in America and legal pot in California
The Economist (UK)
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Thursday, October 14, 2010
If California votes in favour of legalisation, Mexico would be wise to follow suit (the bottom would anyway fall out of its marijuana business). The drug gangs would still be left with more lucrative cocaine and methamphetamines. But it would become easier to defeat them. The idea of going back to a tacit bargain that tolerates organised crime, favoured by some in Mexico, is inimical to the rule of law, and thus to democracy and a free society. The sooner Mexico turns its new-found sense of urgency into a more effective national policing and law-enforcement strategy the better.
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