The maximum amount of marijuana for “personal use” under the new law is 5 grams—the equivalent of about four joints. The limit is a half gram for cocaine, the equivalent of about 4 “lines.” For other drugs, the limits are 50 milligrams of heroin, 40 milligrams for methamphetamine and 0.015 milligrams for LSD.
Now that this is all suddenly legal in Mexico, I suspect we’ll be seeing a ballot measure doing the same here in Cali within a few years. (We’ve already decriminaized pot.) And it will probably pass, too. Par-ty!
Look, seriously, the “war on Drugs” has been the agent for some of the most pernicious assaults on our liberties, not least because they occur at the local level. The sooner it goes away, the better. And no, I don’t do drugs, so there.