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Save Tijuana
REFRIED GRINGO are you kidding me, their is an abundance of drug use in Mexico. There has been a case study on the age of Mexican vs American children doing drugs, the average age of a Mexican child to start drugs was an astonishing 11 years old, as the average for an American was 17 years old. Along with the drug use in America is a high 8 percent amongst while Mexico is 22 percent the only countries to beat Mexico is Belgium and China. This is polled as a person who does drugs at least once a week or more. But, the only downfall to the know the truth is that marijuana, prescription drugs (not officially prescribed to you), and methamphetamines, etc are all combined into this study so once they specify on what types of drugs each country is using they can focus on fixing the problem. I am not saying that there are no drugs in America because there are drugs everywhere. But, in the Mexican states, there are thousands of acres of opium plants, along with marijuana plants, that are so heavily guarded that the Federalis cannot get to it, it is well known on the locations, the Mexican drug cartel is their own entity like the Yakuza in Japan. Its like two military branches are fighting against each other in the country. Once they take down these cartels drug prices in the U.S. will sky rocket, and drug use will go down in both countries. Everything is based on Mexico since they are a huge contributing factor to trafficking drugs in the U.S. vice the small class labs in the U.S., doctoring OTC drugs into worse things for your body. I am working on my study on drugs and the physiology on the human body. You should do some studying as well. It will enlighten your thinking that third world countries are contributing factors to the world's drug problem and they need to solve them on their own so they can become self sufficient at minimizing their problems.— July 18, 2009 6:11 p.m.
Save Tijuana
they should save themselves, its not our problem. If they can't control their people they shouldn't try to save it, they don't help each other out down there. I went there and when i got back I felt like I needed a shower with bleach. It was so disgusting. If they want to save their city, they have to get rid of the crime, along with the drug cartel and then they can clean up their country. Their legislature needs to be reestablished, and start cleaning the outskirt towns first then move in, the poor turn to drugs, so if they work on their economy most of them are less likely to get into drugs. I really hope they can save Mexico, its a could be a nice vacation country to visit after that.— July 18, 2009 5:52 p.m.
First Swine, Now Squirrels
Generally speaking, when history bluffs refer to any plague they immediately consider the bubonic plague or "black death", their were many pandemics in regards to this bacterial strand known as Pasteurella pestis until recently when it was renamed Yersinia pestis. This bacterium spreads from infected rodents to humans through infected skin tissue, and furthermore from human to human through sneezing, coughing and other infected tissues. Therefore, the writer in this article was telling the truth. The main way the populations of Western Europe, Alexandria, Asia, and other areas around the world that had died from the bubonic plague were that of being bitten by fleas. So, the first response in this article was also true. To be the safest, do not feed squirrel or other rodents if they are not domesticated. If you do, you are calling the "infected" fleas and rodents to fester around your area, thus having a higher chance of infection. On the brighter note, many general antibiotics easily kill off this bacterium. So keep your head on the swivel, do not do things that are questionable and if you do feel a bit sick and had rodents around in your area go to the doctor as the second response said.— April 28, 2009 8:27 a.m.