Mexico's president proposes relaxing marijuana laws

Q: Reflecting growing Latin American disenchantment with the so-called War On Drugs, Mexico's president last week proposed legalizing marijuana-based medicines, raising the amount users can carry and freeing inmates on minor weed charges. Where is Mexico?

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Q: More than 100,000 people have died in drug-related violence in Mexico in the last decade. Where else has drug gang violence killed thousands and prompted thousands of children to flee?

A. El Salvador

B. Guatemala

C. Honduras

D. All of the above

Q: In an effort to weaken heroin-smuggling gangs, Mexico also is considering regulating poppy production to make legal pain reducing drugs. Which Asia Minor country cut illicit poppy production by switching to legal opiates?

A. Afghanistan

B. Myanmar

C. Turkey

D. Thailand

Q: Which landlocked South American nation kicked out the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration several years ago and now allows farmers to grow small amounts of coca, the plant used to make cocaine?

A. Bolivia

B. Chile

C. Colombia

D. Uruguay

Q: Leaders of the world's second largest nation are planning to legalize recreational marijuana use. What is the second largest nation by area?

A. Russia

B. Canada

C. Brazil

D. Australia


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