Marijuana Laws: Growing Outcry in Latin America Over Colorado, Washington Votes

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Fox News:

The votes in Colorado and Washington to legalize recreational marijuana continue to make waves south of the border.

Three Central American countries are joining Mexico in calling for the Organization of American States to study the effect of the pot votes – considering it could impact their efforts to fight drugs.

Mexico, Belize, Honduras and Costa Rica say 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 Calderón 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," Calderón 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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The cartels will stay in business as long as there are government officials to bribe and rivals and opponents to get rid of.

[pollyannaish]

Glad we could help.

[clearvision]

Ha. I was reading this and thinking of this headline "US to become world's largest oil producer by 2020"... The US could easily become the biggest pot producer in the world by 2020.