2 City Council members in group that wants feds to legalize pot - El Paso Times
EL PASO — A group that includes two El Paso City Council members on Monday will ask the federal government to legalize marijuana. The event is timed in anticipation of a state visit to Washington, D.C., next week by Mexican President Felipe Calderón.
El Paso city Reps. Beto O’Rourke and Susie Byrd are helping to organize the event, at 1 p.m. at the base of the Paso del Norte Bridge, which connects El Paso to Juárez. Oscar Martinez, a Juárez native and history professor at the University of Arizona, will speak.
The Obama administration is about to unveil an initiative to reduce the demand for illegal drugs in the United States. It will include more money for drug treatment.
But O’Rourke also wants Obama to lead an effort to legalize, regulate and tax marijuana.
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