{"id":4111,"date":"2010-11-06T18:22:28","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T01:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=4111"},"modified":"2010-11-06T18:22:28","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T01:22:28","slug":"nullification-or-not-a-vote-for-prop-19-was-a-vote-to-end-a-bloody-war-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/11\/06\/nullification-or-not-a-vote-for-prop-19-was-a-vote-to-end-a-bloody-war-in-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Nullification or not, a vote for Prop 19 was a vote to end a bloody war in Mexico."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/2010\/11\/what_happened_to_prop_19.php\">Josh Marshall<\/a> is right to view California&#8217;s failed effort to legalize marijuana in U.S.-centric terms and find it wanting. <\/p>\n<p>But when viewed from the perspective of regional politics (and all politics is local), it was a bold step forward. The American consumer&#8217;s demand for drugs has thrust the neighboring state of Mexico into a bloody war. The black or gray market that Prop. 19 tried to regulate is international. <\/p>\n<p>If you live in California, the fate of Mexico is not as abstract as the fate of the Afghans. It&#8217;s worth pointing out that the pro-business and quite conservative former president of Mexico issued a public statement only a week before the election <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2010\/10\/28\/vicente_fox_on_california_legalizing_pot_may_god_let_it_pass\">praying to God<\/a> (a conservative Catholic&#8217;s God), that the legalization measure pass in California. <\/p>\n<p>Prop 19 may have been doomed as domestic politics but it was potentially productive as international policy. (Conversely, detaining people who happen to be driving while brown is not a very effective way to regulate an international labor supply.)<\/p>\n<p>The tragedy of this movement is that it has not enlisted the vote of Mexican Americans who are interested in restoring order to their ancestral homeland and\/or Christians who wish to see the bonds of slavery dissolved via compassionate treatment rather than incarceration (hate the sin, not the sinner).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Marshall is right to view California&#8217;s failed effort to legalize marijuana in U.S.-centric terms and find it wanting. But when viewed from the perspective of regional politics (and all politics is local), it was a bold step forward. The American consumer&#8217;s demand for drugs has thrust the neighboring state of Mexico into a bloody&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}