Pubdate: Wed, 10 Jul 2013
Source: Dominion Post, The (New Zealand)
Copyright: 2013 The Dominion Post
Contact:  http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2550

LEGALISE-POT CALL

Former Mexican president Vicente Fox took his crusade to legalise
marijuana to San Francisco yesterday, joining pot advocates to urge
the US and his own country to decriminalise the sale and recreational
use of cannabis. Fox had a three-hour meeting with the advocates,
including Steve DeAngelo, the Oakland-based executive director of
California's largest marijuana dispensary, and former Microsoft
executive Jamen Shively, who hopes to create a Seattle-based pot brand
now that Washington State has legalised recreational use.
Legalisation, Fox said after the meeting, was the only way to end the
violence of Mexican drug cartels, which he blamed on the US's war on
drugs.
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