{"id":1698,"date":"2009-08-21T08:46:36","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T14:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2009-08-21T08:46:36","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T14:46:36","slug":"new-speed-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/new-speed-limit\/","title":{"rendered":"New “Speed” Limit"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just learned that Mexico decriminalized small-scale drug possession<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Mexico decriminalized small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin on Friday \u2014 a move that prosecutors say makes sense even in the midst of the government’s grueling battle against drug traffickers.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said the new law sets clear limits that keep Mexico’s corruption-prone police from shaking down casual users and offers addicts free treatment to keep growing domestic drug use in check.<\/p>\n

“This is not legalization, this is regulating the issue and giving citizens greater legal certainty,” said Bernardo Espino del Castillo of the attorney general’s office.<\/p>\n

The new law sets out maximum “personal use” amounts for drugs, also including LSD and methamphetamine. People detained with those quantities no longer face criminal prosecution.<\/p>\n

Espino del Castillo says, in practice, small users almost never did face charges anyway.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think this is dumb.<\/p>\n

But I’ve been wrong before.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, they have decriminalized small amounts of driving in excess of the posted highway<\/b> speed limit. For which I’ve been glad.<\/p>\n

But that kind of speed is different than the kind featured in the story above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just learned that Mexico decriminalized small-scale drug possession: Mexico decriminalized small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin on Friday \u2014 a move that prosecutors say makes sense even in the midst of the government’s grueling battle against drug traffickers. Prosecutors said the new law sets clear limits that keep Mexico’s corruption-prone police from shaking … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[395,8],"tags":[644,171,805],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dumb-and-such","category-politics","tag-laws","tag-mexico","tag-war-on-drugs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-ro","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}