Mexico’s incoming foreign minister, Marcelo Ebrard, said the country could “absolutely” follow Canada in legalizing marijuana as a way to reduce violence generated by a war on drugs that “doesn’t work.”
This week he met with Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland and said that Ottawa’s experience “is a very interesting option in the short term for Mexico.”
According to Ebrard – who will become the foreign minister when Mexico’s president-elect, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, takes office on December 1 – “there are two options: the Canadian model or the Uruguay model.”
Canada legalized the possession and use . . .
