Former Mexican president calls for legalizing marijuana

Source: CNN

Former Mexican president calls for legalizing marijuana
May 13, 2009 -- Updated 0005 GMT (0805 HKT)

By Arthur Brice
CNN

(CNN) -- Former Mexican President Vicente Fox has joined three other ex-leaders of Latin American nations calling for the decriminalization of marijuana.

Fox, who was Mexico's president from 2000 to 2006, said the current policy is clearly not working.

"I believe it's time to open the debate over legalizing drugs," he told CNN on Tuesday. "It must be done in conjunction with the United States, but it is time to open the debate."

He pointed to how the end of Prohibition in the United States in 1933 lessened organized crime violence.

"It can't be that the only way is for the state to use force," he said.


Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/05/13/mexico.fox.marijuana/index.html

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Former Pres. _Bush with Harper,
visiting Vicente Fox in Mexico.

I love that interview with Vicente where he talks about how Porgie was afraid of the horsies....

I'm lovin' it.

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