There is a shift towards people using drugs at a younger age. Mexico is also looking at shifting away from criminalizing drug users to treating them as people with a health problem that need help. A pilot project in chi a, which is a northern state where siedar bades is located sees offenders put into therapy rather than given a criminal conviction. There's also an effort to try and make sure that there are enough treatment centres and that they're of good quality.
The names are familiar but the establishment-choice and rabble-rouser roles are reversed. That the vote was along class lines rather than ethnicity marks an important shift. Will
the result stand? For years Mexico was seen merely as a conduit for illegal drugs; now it has a
growing user base as well. And the
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