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7. well, there is a link with the summit regarding legalization

There isn't going to be any public change in the administration's stance on legalization before the election, and, the move by Latin American countries to consider legalization and decriminalization as a way to deal with their cartels and drug gangs has had the effect of hardening the administration's public stance; all that on stage at this meeting.

"We should have this debate, and the reason is to dispel some of the myths that exist about legalization," VP Biden told reporters last month. "There are those people who say, 'If you legalize, you are not going to expand the number of consumers significantly.' Not true."