So former Mexican president Vincente Fox did a speech in Kennesaw yesterday urging the US officials to “renew the debate about legalizing some drug use.”

Now, I’m not one to disagree with such things, but it really sounds like Mexico is trying to push blame for their own drug problems onto someone else. We spend billions of dollars every year on drug control, I’d love to see the numbers that Mexico is putting out for the same issues. I highly doubt its even close. We all know a large portion of the US drug supply is flooding in from Mexico every day, but is it really our responsibility to help Mexico control their problems?

Fox continued to say that he thinks the US should form a joint effort with Mexican military/police to help stop the cartels from distributing in the US. Again, this seems to have an alternate motive. The cartel is responsible for over 10,500 deaths since the Mexican military started an offensive against them in 2006. How the fuck is this our problem? Is it really our fault that your military cannot handle them? You don’t think we have our own problems?

It’ll be interesting to see how Obama responds to this. Personally, I think it would be easier if we just legalized marijuana and let mexico deal with their own problems. We don’t need to stop the Cartel’s to help drug violence in the US. If anything, legalization in the US would become a booming business and might help our struggling economy in these tough times.

Source: Associated Press – Fox encouraged about US cooperation in drug war