I go to Barra, Troncones, Ixtapa, La Ropa, Playa Madera, Playa Principal, Playa Blanca, Playa Larga and Las Gatas alone. No issues .... just a lot of fun!

Follow the same "common sense rules" we use in Seattle.

Good to know there are still gentlemen out there.

You miss the point. Making drugs legal is not the answer, Colorado is already having second thoughts. Legal in MJ in Holland is history. Alcohol is legal and it still causes problems. Outlaw guns because they cause death? That's like outlawing airplanes because 4 of them were used to kill 3,000- on 9/11.

The "problems" are rooted in basic human behavior. Good behavior should be rewarded and bad behavior condemned in one manner or another. Maybe a bunch or armed citizens with baseball bats and some rope would discourage bad behavior? Sounds tempting but not a solution!

The Romans started the Circus as a reward and it ended up being at least partially responsible for the collapse as the people demanded more and more "free" Circuses until the Empire could not longer afford it. Think about it-what happens when a segment of society accedes to the demands of some to the detriment of others; when the "bad" are rewarded and the "good" punished.

I rest my case.

You never made a case to rest.

Please elaborate on what the bad behavior is. Getting high? Your neanderthal backwards policy based on bigotry has been tried for the past century and all it has done is create warlords and cartels and violence so horrific people are fleeing their countries including mothers in Honduras sending their children to the USA so they don't get forced into the criminal gangs that have taken over that country thanks to failed U.S. policy and U.S. meddling in their internal affairs (especially under Hillary's watch). If Prohibition 1.0 in just around 10 years created a mafia that has endured almost a century, though it has mostly legitimized itself by now, then at least make an effort to wrap your head around what Prohibition 2.0 has created. And this isn't on Mexico or Colombia or Afghanistan or any other country that supplies the market, mostly of U.S. citizens (over 40 million at last count). It's on the idiots who insist in banning anything that gets people high that isn't alcohol or tobacco, now a policy lobbied hard by Big Pharma and Big Alcohol in the USA and other nations since they don't want to lose their markets. It's on folks who insist on criminalizing use and punishing the users worse than the Wall Street criminals who ruined the nation's economy or the war criminals Bush and Cheney et al who lied to start a war for profit. And the USA's arms manufacturers get to sell their goods to folks on both sides of the policy, so yeah, I can see why there are strong interests in the USA who want to maintain the status quo. Gee, which one are you invested in?

No, Colorado isn't having second thoughts. They're building schools and infrastructure and health care facilities and enjoying all kinds of economic benefits, though of course there are folks seeking to protect their turf while others are trying to exploit opportunities like greed-driven capitalists are wont to do. Amazing how some people get all giddy about trying to impose their morality on others so as to seek to boost their own fragile egos.

On the subject of pot alone, but also allowing allusion to other substances, the Mexican Supreme Court wisely stated the case for legalization best. They said "prohibir el consumo personal de mariguana con fines lúdicos y recreativos es contrario al libre desarrollo de la personalidad....La medida extrema de prohibirla es desproporcional en relación con los daños científicamente comprobados que tiene... Se ha puesto de manifiesto el reconocimiento de diversas formas en que las personas deciden llevar el rumbo de sus vidas asumiendo elecciones que por más que puedan estar bajo una óptica moral, cuestionadas por la sociedad, encuentran una protección jurídica por su carácter de derechos humanos."

Now THAT'S what I call making a case!

Even God is on Rob's side!

The "problems" are rooted in basic human behavior. Good behavior should be rewarded and bad behavior condemned in one manner or another. Maybe a bunch or armed citizens with baseball bats and some rope would discourage bad behavior? Sounds tempting but not a solution!

The Romans started the Circus as a reward and it ended up being at least partially responsible for the collapse as the people demanded more and more "free" Circuses until the Empire could not longer afford it. Think about it-what happens when a segment of society accedes to the demands of some to the detriment of others; when the "bad" are rewarded and the "good" punished.

I rest my case.

It really is getting out of control here!! Really need a police presence!!!!!

The police only do what they're instructed to do. The problem begins with a mayor who says providing public security is not his job, as he commented to me after the shooting death of a well-liked and well-known woman driving along La Boquita earlier this year who had nothing to do with any narco business.

I'm starting to lean toward martial law. Too many politicians and the parties that pull their strings are proving themselves to be simply too greedy and too incompetent. They apparently prefer to make deals with the criminals and share the booty instead of taking concrete steps to reduce crime, such as legalizing stupidly banned popular substances and having professional well-equipped police forces that patrol the streets on foot instead of whizzing by a couple of times a day in their trucks. The stupid "war on drugs" approach is what has created this mess.

A pick up truck just smashed into a bus and took out a lamp post and the 3 drunks run for it. The amazing thing is that there were 3 police cars on site within 5 minutes. In the same place a few months ago we had 2 people shot and killed near the same place and the police took 20 to 30 minutes to arrive on scene and a few days later 2 more people were shot in the same area and the police showed up after 30 minutes.

The other day there was a photo in the paper of a drunk driver whose car came to a stop on the sidewalk up against the closed cortina of a tienda. The driver was snoozing when the cops came. But instead of arresting him for operating a vehicle while severely inebriated, and even though his car had obviously been in an accident somewhere else from the damage visible, they simply woke him up and allowed him to drive away.

Hard to believe but true! This is why we can't have nice things.