His column, "The Counter-Productive Fight Against the Narco (now archived by the increasingly spiffy Vive Con Drogas website captained by 2003 Authentic Journalism Scholar Ricardo Salas, notes:

With society infested, some of its sectors propose the out-and-out legalization of some drugs, something that of course requires a serious debate that lamentably has not fully emerged in these moments when the polarization of Mexican citizens is growing.

However, in the political sector there are those who propose to openly confront the prohibition policy imposed by the U.S. In 1998, then-Senator Maria del Carmen Bolado del Real, of the PAN (National Action Party) proposed a bill to legalize and regulate all drugs in Mexico

The same has been proposed in different moments by leaders of almost all the political parties, including Vicente Fox, who said in 2001 that the decriminalization of drugs would be inevitable as the global solution. But the Commercial Media never rise to the debate and this has made it difficult for reform partisans to gain traction.

In recent days, I note, the discussion about drug legalization has grown. It is already more than a murmur. It is an active discussion in many parts of Mexico.

Is that the solution? The debate begins.

(That column originally appeared in the daily Cambio in the Northern Mexican state of Sonora.)