Ex-cabinet members call for decriminalization of marijuana
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- Published on Friday, 02 August 2013 11:44
- Written by Duncan Tucker
In an editorial published in the Washington Post on Saturday, two prominent members of Mexico’s last two administrations advocated decriminalizing marijuana in Mexico City.
Jorge Castañeda, foreign minister under President Vicente Fox, and Fernando Gomez Mont, interior minister under President Felipe Calderon, cited the legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington last year as reason for Mexico to abandon its costly and futile war on pot and follow the two states’ lead toward a more relaxed drug policy.