Drug Enforcement Quotes
Owner of one of the only 2 Mexican Television Networks. Mexico is constantly criticized by the American government and media for not cracking down on Mexican drug kingpins who operate very visibly in Mexico. Salinas points out that while the American drug kingpins are not as ostentatious and open as in Mexico, the U. S. did not have the will or the skill to prosecute the American drug kingpins.
He was the first Chinese official to make opium illegal. However, British many merchants were involved in a complicated trade scheme whereby they brought opium to Canton. They paid not attention to the new laws against opium the same as their Chinese customers. Lin Zexu, perceiving Queen Victoria to have powers equivalent to the Chinese Emperor who could do anything in China, He assumed that the Queen could and would control the merchant’s behavior, and before punishing the British merchants, he was putting the Queen on notice. There is no record of what Victoria did, if anything. When Lin Zexu tried to enforce his ban on opium, the British Merchants resisted and the First Opium War broke out between China and Britainin which the Chinese were humiliated and resent to this day. A bronze statue of Lin Zexu was erected in his honor in Chatham Square (Kimlau Square) of New York City's Chinatown.
President Barack Obama had the week before, made a speech observing the fact that marijuana was less dangerous then alcohol.
The interesting thing about this quotation is that he himself was a drug addict who illegally used drugs. However, when he finally got caught, the judge didn’t follow is “law and order” ranting. He got off without serving any jail time.
