Pubdate: Tue, 20 Mar 2001
Source: Houston Chronicle (TX)
Copyright: 2001 Houston Chronicle
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Author: John Rice

FOX: LEGALIZED DRUGS MAY BE SOLUTION

MEXICO CITY - Struggling with the corruption and violence caused by 
drug trafficking, President Vicente Fox says the solution might be to 
eventually legalize drug use.

In an interview published by two newspapers Sunday, Fox indicated 
agreement with a police official who suggested last week that the 
only way to win the war on drugs was to legalize drugs - eliminating 
the profits and violence caused by illegal trafficking.

"That's right, that's true, that's true," the newspaper Unomasuno 
quoted Fox as saying.

But the president quickly qualified that statement, saying Mexico 
could not move alone, that such a move "would have to come all over 
the world" and indicating he did not expect such a step soon.
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