Mexico and the War on Drugs: Time to Legalize

Submitted by David Borden on Wed, 09/28/2011 - 3:39pm

Mexico and the War on Drugs: Time to Legalize
Tuesday, October 18, 12:00 p.m.

Mount Vernon Place • Undercroft Auditorium
900 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C.

Featuring Vicente Fox, Former President, Mexico; moderated by Ian VÃ¡squez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute

About the event - The drug war has led to a rise in corruption and gruesome criminality that is weakening democratic institutions, the press, law enforcement, and other elements of a free society. Former Mexican president Vicente Fox will explain that prohibition is not working and that the legalization of the sale, use, and production of drugs offers a superior way of dealing with the problem of drug abuse.

Location

900 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC
United States

Announcement

Mexican Drug War

Politics Outside US

Legalization Supporters

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