Mexico Ex-President Fox Calls for Drug Legalization

Bloomberg
By Jonathan J. Levin and Jens Erik Gould

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox said his country should legalize the production and sale of drugs in order to curb rising cartel-related violence.

Legalizing narcotics would curtail funding to organized crime groups, who are using profits from the drug trade to consolidate power, Fox wrote yesterday on his personal website.

“Radical prohibition strategies have never worked,â€