Mexico follows Portugal in applying sanity to their drug laws. I hope that other countries such as the UK and Australia follow their lead, although the chances of Howard decriminalising Ecstasy possession are less than him saying sorry to those bloody abo's in my opinion.

Let's face it, arresting a clubber for possession of 2 pills is not making any contribution at all, in the wider sense, to the never ending 'war on drugs'. Police resources would be much better deployed at disrupting the organised criminal gangs that control the market. Of course, you could legalise the market completely and massively reduce crime but that isn't realistically gonna happen so the small steps that Mexico and Portugal have taken are most welcome. The day we stop punishing people for seeking to get high for a few hours is the day our society will become more grown up.