Forgive the Mexicans for trying to get this straight:

So now the United States, which has spent decades battling Mexican marijuana, is on a legalization bender?

The same United States that long viewed cannabis as a menace, funding crop-poisoning programs, tearing up auto bodies at the border, and deploying sniffer dogs, fiber-optic scopes and backscatter X-ray machines to detect the lowly weed?

The success of legalization initiatives in Washington and Colorado in November has sparked a new conversation in a nation that is one of the world’s top marijuana growers: Should Mexico, which has suffered mightily in its war against the deadly drug cartels, follow the Western states’ lead?

via Yakima Herald Republic | Mexico considers legalizing pot after ballot wins in U.S..