U.S. inability to cut illegal drug consumption leaves Guatemala with no option but to consider legalizing the use and transport of drugs, President Otto Perez Molina says, a remarkable U-turn for an ex-general elected on a platform of crushing organized crime.

Drug maker Novartis is taking legal action in Britain to make state-run hospitals use an eye drug that costs about $1,120 per shot instead of a cheaper one that costs $95.