Mexico Eases Ban on Drug Possession – WSJ.com
Mexico decriminalized small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin on Friday, in a move that creates one of the world’s most permissive narcotics markets and that opponents say could complicate President Felipe Calderón’s war against illegal drug cartels.The law goes beyond what is allowed in many other countries by making it legal to possess small amounts of a wide array of drugs. For instance, the new law allows the equivalent of about five joints of marijuana or four lines of cocaine.
