President of Guatemala Praises Colorado and Washington for Legalizing Cannabis
The President of Guatemala Otto Pérez Molina praised the voters of Colorado and Washington for legalizing cannabis during a speech given at the United Nations on Thursday. The president
also spoke out against the failures of the drug war, and urged countries to take a different approach.
“You know global drug policy is changing when the president of a Latin American country plagued by drug trafficking violence praises US initiatives to legalize marijuana,” said Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance. “It feels like sanity and rationality are at last penetrating the highest levels of governments throughout the Americas.”
The President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos, as well as Uruguayan President José Mujica, also spoke out against the drug war at the United Nations this week.
– TheJointBlog