Drug Legalization Debated at Congressional Hearing on US-Mexico Ties Agencia EFE
go to original May 20, 2014

A hearing Tuesday of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs regarding the future of U.S. relations with Mexico included discussion of criminal violence south of the border and the pros and cons of legalizing currently illegal drugs.

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) asked senior State Department officials whether - instead of spending millions of dollars on suppressing the trafficking and consumption of dugs - it wouldn't weaken the cartels more to remove the profits made by illegal drug sales.

But the assistant secretary for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, William Brownfield, replied that he would not recommend any policy that increases the attainability of drugs that are now illegal.

Rohrabacher, however, said he had seen no evidence that legalizing drugs would increase the number of users.

During the nearly three-hour-long hearing, the State Department officials praised the cooperation with Mexico in the fight against drug traffickers and in promoting greater trade and economic integration.

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