Former Mexican President Vicente Fox, his crusade to legalize marijuana, to San Francisco on Monday, urged the United States to join the pot, and his own country sales and recreational use of marijuana decriminalization advocates.
Fox met three hours of advocates, including the Executive Director in Oakland, California's largest marijuana dispensary Steve Dian Ji Luo, former Microsoft executive Jamen Shively, who wish to create one now headquartered in Seattle pot brand , Washington has legalized recreational use.
Legalization, Fox told reporters after the meeting, the only way to end the violence in Mexican drug cartels, he accused the U.S. drug war.
"The cost of war becomes unbearable - excessive Mexico, Latin America and the rest of the world," Fox said in English.
Every day, he said, 40 young people died in drug-related violence.
Fox's position on the legalization of drugs has evolved over time, with the United States when he was trying to calm his 2000-2006 presidency in Mexico during production because days. He has become increasingly vocal in his opposition to the current policy to support two previous efforts to legalize marijuana in Mexico.
Current president of Mexico Enrique Pe?a Nieto, oppose legalization. But he recently said he would consider the matter of world public opinion, especially in the recent voter-approved initiative in Washington state and Colorado legalized marijuana for recreational use.
In San Francisco on Monday, Fox said he has signed to attend and contribute to the development of international summit in Mexico later this month, the path to the end of the strategic marijuana prohibition.
"Plans to attend the three-day conference beginning July 18 in San Cristobal participants included the U.S. surgeon, Harvard University School of Public Health dean and a Mexican congressman who plans to introduce a bill to legalize based in Mexico this summer, Fox said.
The bill, he expects the introduction of Fernando Belaunzaran Mexican legislators will legalize adult recreational use of marijuana, Fox said.
Support the legalization of marijuana in the United States has been growing. 19 states and the District of Columbia have passed medical marijuana laws, according to the national pro-legalization of marijuana law reform bodies. But the drug is still illegal under federal law.
But lifting ban marijuana in Mexico, however, seems to face an uphill battle. Mexican lawmakers rejected the legalization efforts and polls have shown little public support for the idea.
But Fox promised wages, he said, is a necessary fight.
"We can not afford more blood loss and more young people," Fox said. "We must get rid of the trap where we are."
 



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