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SAO PAULO: The Colombian President, Juan Manuel Santos, has called for the global legalisation of marijuana to help combat the trafficking of harder drugs and related violence.

 

Mr Santos added his voice to a growing list of influential figures in Latin America demanding a rethink of the policies that have been used for decades to fight the drug trade. He said legalising softer drugs such as marijuana worldwide could help to improve international efforts to deal with harder drugs such as cocaine and heroin.

 

''The world needs to discuss new approaches … we are basically still thinking within the same framework as we have done for the last 40 years,'' he said.

 

 

Asked if making marijuana legal could offer a way forward, Mr Santos said it could and he would support it ''provided everyone does it at the same time''. But he emphasised that other countries needed to take the lead, saying the issue was ''a matter of national security'' for Colombia, whereas ''in other countries this is mainly a health and crime issue''.

 

Last month the Mexican President, Felipe Calderon, used a speech in New York to warn the US that, as the world's ''largest consumer of drugs'', it may have to consider legalisation ''to reduce the astronomical earnings of criminal organisations''.

 

Robin Yapp, London

October 28, 2011

Telegraph, London

 

 

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/make-pot-legal-says-colombia-20111027-1mm13.html#ixzz1c53zG0ph

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