WWWD? (What will Washington Do?)
Today’s The [Mexico City] News:
A forum on the regulation of cannabis begins on Monday at the Chamber of Deputies and organizers promise to give a hearing for all points of view, including those promoting legalization.
Forum participants will include politicians, academics, Supreme Court justices, military officials, Interior Secretary Fernando Gómez Mont and Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora.
The idea of overhauling Mexico’s marijuana laws has gained some traction as the war against narcotics trafficking cartels and organized crime has claimed more than 9,000 lives since December 2006. Congress previously approved the decriminalization of drug use in the spring of 2006, but then-President Vicente Fox vetoed the measure after U.S. authorities complained.
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