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Obama Says Legalization Is Not the Answer on Drugs.

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    • Subject Terms:
      CARTAGENA (Colombia); COLOMBIA; WESTERN Hemisphere; UNITED States
    • Subject Terms:
      OBAMA, Barack, 1961-
    • Abstract:
      CARTAGENA, Colombia -- Leaders at a summit meeting of many of the Western Hemisphere nations on Saturday discussed alternatives to what many consider a failed ''war on drugs'' that is too reliant on military action and imprisonment. But President Obama said flatly that ''legalization is not the answer.'' The issue was placed on the agenda of the Summit of the Americas this weekend by the host, Colombia's president, Juan Manuel Santos. Even so, Mr. Santos suggested that he had in mind some unspecified middle ground short of fully decriminalizing the drug trade that for years has undermined societies throughout the region, notably in Colombia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]