In Mexico, pot remains in legal limbo after high court ruling 3 minutes read
By Eduard Ribas i Admetlla
Mexico City, Jul 26 (EFE).- A month after the historic Mexican Supreme Court ruling that lifted the prohition on the recreational consumption of marijuana, cannabis remains in a confused legal limbo, given that such use remains a criminal offense in the Penal Code and the government still has not authorized the issuance of permits for personal consumption.
“We’re seeing a contradiction between these two laws that govern us. It’s something that’s very worrying and we have to keep demanding this change,” Zara Snapp, the cofounder of the Instituto RIA, which investigates drug policy in Mexico, told EFE in an interview on Monday.
Mexico decriminalizes recreational use of marijuana but not pot sales 3 minutes read
By Eduard Ribas i Admetlla
Mexico City, Jun 28 (EFE).- After the brouhaha in the Mexican Congress over legalizing recreational marijuana use, the Supreme Court on Monday issued an historic ruling lifting the prohibition on the recreational use of pot in Mexico although selling it is still a crime.
“Today is an historic day for freedoms. After a long road, this Supreme Court is consolidating the right to the … recreational use of marijuana,” the president of the high court, Arturo Zaldivar, said after the vote.
Eight of the 11 justices voted in favor of allowing recreational pot use while nine voted in favor of various other measures involved in the case, meaning that in both situations the high court voted to nullify the five articles in the General Health Law preventing legal recreational pot use.
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Mexico is on the brink of legalizing cannabis after lawmakers voted to permit recreational use in a step towards curbing the power of the country s drug cartels and the narcotics-related violence that claims thousands of lives a year.
The legislation backed by Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador looks almost certain to be approved after a 316-129 vote in Mexico s lower house.
The move to allow people to carry up to one ounce (28 grams) of cannabis and grow up to eight plants at home for personal consumption would create what has been described as the largest legal market in the world in a country of 126million people.
Updated: 11 Mar 2021, 15:54
MEXICO is set to legalise marijuana and create the world s largest legal market in a bid to combat the country s powerful drug cartels.
The legislation, backed by Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, looks almost certain to be approved after a 316-129 vote in the country’s lower house.
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Cannabis consumers march as lawmakers met to discuss the landmark billCredit: EPA
Lawmakers who supported the bill said it would contribute to achieving peace after the deaths of more than 300,000 people in a gruesome war with the cartels.
It is hoped creating a legal, regulated cannabis market will deprive the cartels of their market and empty prisons of small-time weed users.