FOX: LEGALIZED DRUGS MAY BE SOLUTION

MEXICO CITY - Struggling with the corruption and violence caused by
drug trafficking, President Vicente Fox says the solution might be to
eventually legalize drug use.

In an interview published by two newspapers Sunday, Fox indicated
agreement with a police official who suggested last week that the
only way to win the war on drugs was to legalize drugs - eliminating
the profits and violence caused by illegal trafficking.

"That's right, that's true, that's true," the newspaper Unomasuno
quoted Fox as saying.

But the president quickly qualified that statement, saying Mexico
could not move alone, that such a move "would have to come all over
the world" and indicating he did not expect such a step soon.