Peruvian police with cocaine seized in a recent drug raid. A record 6.7 million metric tons was taken at the end of AugustEnrique Castro-Mendivil—ReutersA major new report makes the case for decriminalizing illicit drugs—all of themWhile the international news has been one depressing event after another this summer, there’s been an encouraging shift in one… Seguir leyendo It’s Time to End the Drug War
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Commentary : End the War That No One Wants to Wage : Drugs: Legalizing certain substances may be the only way to stop violence, corruption and the collapse of law.
In the central-western canyons of the Mexican border state of Chihuahua, where waterfalls and abandoned mines blend in with secret landing strips and vertical mountain plots, the few remaining peasants can choose between cultivating corn on barren cliffs
Guest: Time to legalize marijuana in Mexico City
LAST year, voters in Colorado and Washington state approved initiatives legalizing the recreational use of marijuana. While the details are being worked out, those watching the developments are not only in the United States.
A push in Mexico City to legalize marijuana use
Last year, voters in Colorado and Washington state approved initiatives legalizing the recreational use of marijuana. While the details are being worked out, those watching the developments are in not only the United States.
Former Mexican official: Immigrants will become Mexico’s burden if US doesn’t take more
A former Mexican cabinet member says the U.S. should accept more low-skill migrants from Central America, because otherwise the migrants would stay in Mexico.
LETTER Amnesty for Immigrants?
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Brazil-Mexico auto fight: calling fouls
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Mexico’s former foreign minister on the Mexico-Canada relationship
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The Trouble With the BRICs
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California’s Prop 19, on legalizing marijuana, could end Mexico’s drug war
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