Mexico’s illegal-reefer madness
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Isaac Campos, an assistant professor of history at the University of Cincinnati and a visiting fellow at UC San Diego’s Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, writes today in The Times’ Opinion section about how Mexico’s policy on marijuana could be contributing to its problem of drug-related violence.
Ironically, decades of being ‘tough’ on drugs has produced a new link between marijuana and violence, but of a different kind. Indeed, the nation’s ‘drug-related’ violence today might more accurately be termed ‘drug-policy-related’ violence.
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— Deborah Bonello in Mexico City