Alors que de plus en plus d’états décriminalisent le cannabis aux Etats-Unis, la guerre contre la drogue fait rage au Mexique

Plusieurs états ont légalisé ou décriminalisé le cannabis aux Etats-Unis, améliorant la vie d’innombrables Américains. Le Mexique n’a pas eu une telle chance.

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By Froylán Enciso & Brenda Pérez

In August of 2016, Aarón Valencia and his family fled to the United States amid the violence of Mexico’s drug war. Gangs had threatened to force two of his children into organized crime in his home state of Michoacán, and seeking refuge in the United States seemed his only option.

Today, Aarón, a former member of a vigilante militia disarmed by the Mexican government, and his family are being held at the Eloy Detention Center in Arizona, waiting for their asylum claim to be processed. They are among the millions of victims of the drug war that rages in Mexico to this day.

Over the past decade, several U.S. states have moved to legalize or decriminalize marijuana, a shift that has improved the lives of countless Americans. But while legalization is an important component of righting the wrongs of the drug war, it is not the only component—especially for the hundreds of thousands of Mexican families who have already been victimized by a century of prohibitionist policies.

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