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Calderon: US Wavers In Drug War With Calif. Pot Vote
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October 08, 2010
Related article: Tijuana Gains Some Bounce Amid Mexico's Drug War
| | Tijuana, Mexico - Mexico's President Felipe Calderon attends the opening ceremony of the Tijuana Innovate festival in Tijuana, Mexico, Thursday Oct. 7, 2010. The two-week $5 million festival in the border city across from San Diego aims to showcase the city's economic prowess and cultural riches in an effort to demonstrate the city is no longer in the grip of warring drug traffickers. (Associated Press) | |
President Felipe Calderon said Thursday that a California ballot measure to legalize marijuana represents hypocrisy in U.S. drug policy for encouraging consumption while at the same time demanding that Mexico and other countries crack down on drug trafficking.
"For me, it reflects a terrible inconsistency in government policies in the United States," the Mexican leader said late Thursday in an interview with The Associated Press.
California voters will decide on Nov. 2 whether to allow possession of up to 1 ounce of marijuana. Proposition 19 would also clear the way for local governments to permit retail sales of pot.
Calderon said he was certain that legalizing marijuana will lead to an increase in drug consumption.
"It's very sad to see how drug consumption is, little by little, tearing apart American society and, if we don't watch ourselves, it will tear apart ours," the president said.
Calderon spoke as Tijuana opened a two-week festival to showcase the city's economic prowess and cultural riches — a $5 million victory that portraying the city across from San Diego as a beacon of hope in the Mexican government's war on drug traffickers that Calderon launched in 2006.
He sent troops to restore order in Tijuana in early 2007, one of the first cities in Mexico to have the military lead the battle against organized crime.
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