Mexico's legalisation solution

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As Mexico suffers from the worst drug-related bloodshed in its history, a growing number of politicians and pundits are calling for the government to take a radical turn in its war on drugs: Legalisation.

In recent months, two left-leaning parties have filed bills in the Mexican congress on the issue - one advocating the decriminalisation of marijuana for personal use and the other of both "soft" and "hard" drugs, including cocaine and heroin.

The proposals come amid a rising tide of opinion to rethink drug prohibition across Latin America, where drug violence has affects different countries in fits and bursts for three decades.

Elsa Conde, the federal congresswoman who filed the marijuana bill in Mexico, told Al Jazeera measure could be a realistic first step toward a wider international policy on the drug trade.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/04/200941108843870.html