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...Paso, which is receiving a stream of Juárez exiles like Rojas, plenty would like to see an even broader shift in policy. The city council recently voted unanimously to ask Washington to consider legalizing marijuana, whose casual use is widely considered no more harmful than that of alcohol. The move would seriously crimp the drug cartels' cash flow, estimated at more than $25 billion a year. El Paso's mayor vetoed the resolution, but "the discussion is changing," says council member Beto O'Rourke, who insists the U.S. has for too long relied too heavily on military...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Bloody Border: Mexico's Drug Wars | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...Arizona, a border state. "Our input is more of a priority now," he says. Before unveiling its new border-security plan in March, the Administration held conference calls with local law chiefs like Wiles. Until this year, the El Paso region had only seven agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to interdict weapons-smuggling. Under the Administration's new plan, it could have as many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Bloody Border: Mexico's Drug Wars | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...Newsom, whose mayoral term has seen the admission of both an affair with a friend's wife and an alcohol abuse problem, will face stiff competition in his quest for the governor's mansion. Likely opponents for the Democratic nomination include state attorney general Jerry Brown (also a former governor), former eBay CEO Meg Whitman and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. But Newsom has shattered expectations before, particularly those predicting he would be a centrist mayor disloyal to San Francisco's liberal tradition. (See TIME's White House Photo Blog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...that he had had an affair with his campaign manager's wife. The woman had disclosed the infidelity to her husband, who had also served as Newsom's deputy chief of staff. In a press conference admitting to the affair, Newsom also said he was getting treatment for alcohol abuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...habit in death. Métrobus, the company that handles display advertising for the Paris Métro and SNCF rail company, says it was obliged to refuse a poster for Coco, Before Chanel because it violates a 1991 law "prohibiting all direct or indirect advertising" for tobacco or alcohol in most public venues. Under that ban, Métrobus reasoned that the poster's shot of a pyjama-clad Tautou holding a flaming ciggie aloft in a typical pose of the real Chanel could be interpreted as an encouragement to light up. It's not like anyone in France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Paris Métro, Even Dead Legends Can't Smoke | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

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