Though I do have a question.

Recreational drug users hailed it as the one of the most progressive laws in the world.

Who do you talk to that's sober enough to give you a serious answer?

Fox Decides Not to Sign Drug Legalization Bill
By Sam Enriquez
Times Staff Writer
May 4, 2006

MEXICO CITY — President Vicente Fox reversed course Wednesday and decided not to sign a drug legalization bill that critics on both sides of the border said would turn Mexico into a narcotics haven.

Fox administration officials had said Tuesday that the president would sign the bill, which set generous limits for the possession of cocaine, heroin, marijuana, opium, amphetamines and several natural and synthetic hallucinogens.

Late Wednesday, the Fox administration said in a news release that the president would return the bill to Congress to "make the needed corrections so it is absolutely clear in our country the possession of drugs and their consumption are, and will continue to be, a criminal offense."

The legislation was intended to close loopholes in current law that grant judges discretion to waive prison sentences for addicts. Judges have exploited the loopholes on behalf of traffickers, officials said.

But rather than apply only to addicts, the bill — which Mexico's Congress approved early Friday at the end of its 2005-06 legislative session — was amended to include anyone older than 18.

News that Mexico would allow any adult to possess and use opiates, marijuana, LSD, Ecstasy and peyote, a hallucinogenic cactus, drew international criticism.