Antonio Cueto
A crowd outside of Mexico s Senate, rallying in support of a proposed bill legalizing marijuana countrywide.
Outside Mexico’s Senate building thousands have gathered to protest for legalization of marijuana. It’s 4/20 day, April 20, the day named for the slang term for marijuana. And 10 days before the Mexico Supreme Court’s deadline for a law on legalization to be passed.
A participant at the rally with a 4/20 body painting in support of legal pot.
Now, more than a month later, there’ still no law.
The legalization effort began three years ago when the Supreme Court ruled that a previous law banning the recreational use of marijuana was unconstitutional. But while the lower chamber of Congress signed a legalization bill that also enjoys the support of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and Morena, the ruling party, the measure to turn the country into the world’s largest legal marijuana market seems stuck.
The proposed law follows a Mexican Supreme Court ruling three years ago that said banning recreational marijuana was unconstitutional. But many are divided about the law’s provisions.