The council unanimously approved the nonbinding resolution.
It suggests that legalizing drugs in the U.S. could help curb a volatile and bloody drug war that claimed nearly 1,600 lives in Ciudad Juarez, across the Rio Grande from El Paso, in 2008. Thousands more were killed across Mexico.
A spokesman for El Paso Congressman Silvestre Reyes, who's a former U.S. Border Patrol agent, said he hasn't seen the resolution and wasn't available for comment.
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