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Two U.S. states' decisions to legalize marijuana will have important implications for international efforts to quash drug smuggling, four Latin American leaders declared Monday.
Mexico, Belize, Honduras, and Costa Rica called for the Organization of American States to study the impact of the votes in Colorado and Washington and said the United Nations' General Assembly should hold a special session on the prohibition of drugs by 2015 at the latest.
"It has become necessary to analyze in depth the implications for public policy and health in our nations emerging from the state and local moves to allow the legal production, consumption, and distribution of marijuana in some countries of our continent," Mexican President Felipe Calderon said after a meeting with Honduran President Porfirio Lobo, Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla, and Prime Minister Dean Barrow of Belize.
Marijuana legalization by U.S. state governments is "a paradigm change on the part of those entities in respect to the current international system," Calderon said.
The most influential adviser to Mexico's next president, who takes office Dec. 1, questioned last week how the country will enforce a ban on growing and smuggling a drug now legal under some state laws. Mexico has seen tens of thousands of people killed over the last six years as part of a militarized government attempt to destroy the country's drug cartels.
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Source: philly.com
Author: Eduardo Castillo and Michael Weissenstein
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Mexico, Belize, Honduras, and Costa Rica called for the Organization of American States to study the impact of the votes in Colorado and Washington and said the United Nations' General Assembly should hold a special session on the prohibition of drugs by 2015 at the latest.
"It has become necessary to analyze in depth the implications for public policy and health in our nations emerging from the state and local moves to allow the legal production, consumption, and distribution of marijuana in some countries of our continent," Mexican President Felipe Calderon said after a meeting with Honduran President Porfirio Lobo, Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla, and Prime Minister Dean Barrow of Belize.
Marijuana legalization by U.S. state governments is "a paradigm change on the part of those entities in respect to the current international system," Calderon said.
The most influential adviser to Mexico's next president, who takes office Dec. 1, questioned last week how the country will enforce a ban on growing and smuggling a drug now legal under some state laws. Mexico has seen tens of thousands of people killed over the last six years as part of a militarized government attempt to destroy the country's drug cartels.
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Source: philly.com
Author: Eduardo Castillo and Michael Weissenstein
Contact: Feedback - philly.com
Website: Pot laws ripple to south
