The decision by voters in Colorado and Washington state to legalize
the recreational use of marijuana has left Mexican President-elect
Enrique Peña Nieto and his team scrambling to reformulate their
anti-drug strategies in light of what one senior aide said was a
referendum that “changes the rules of the game.”
It is too early to know what Mexico’s response to the
successful ballot measures will be, but a top aide said Peña Nieto and
members of his incoming administration will discuss the issue with
President Obama and congressional leaders in Washington this month. The
legalization votes, however, are expected to spark a broad debate in
Mexico about the direction and costs of the U.S.-backed drug war here.
Mexico spends billions of dollars each year confronting violent
trafficking organizations that threaten the security of the country but
whose main market is the United States, the largest consumer of drugs in
the world.
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