Mexico’s marijuana revolution is on display steps from the nation’s Senate, where for the last nine months activists have maintained a fragrant cannabis garden.
“You have a broad spectrum of people who want to be involved,” said Avis Bulbulyan, a Glendale-based consultant who has advised several U.S. weed companies looking to expand to Mexico. “The question becomes: ‘Who gets to profit off this?’” Alejandro Madrazo, a researcher at Mexico’s Center for Economic Research and Teaching think tank, said lobbyists from Canada and the United States have played an outsized role in shaping the legislation, which he says would create an “elite gourmet market” that would benefit big corporations and upper-class users.
Last fiscal year, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol seized 266,882 pounds of marijuana, down from 4.3 million pounds in 2009. Almost 60% were incarcerated for marijuana possession, compared with 27% for cocaine. Four out of 10 had been arrested for possession of illicit substances they said were worth less than $25.
Numerous delays have left users in a legal gray area, because while the Supreme Court has in effect decriminalized the drug, there are still no laws regulating its recreational use.Lawmakers who support legalization recently brought a joint as well as a small marijuana shrub into a legislative session, and authorities have not intervened in the garden outside the Senate, which now boasts around 1,000 plants.
Activists assumed he’d be an ally given his campaign pledge to consider ending prohibition and his pick for interior minister, Olga Sánchez Cordero, who is a former Supreme Court justice and vocal advocate for legalizing marijuana.
I beg to differ I had put some plantation in a chamber room in the dessert to regrow food for a system called hydroponics regrowth and the seeds were not used it was re genitive growth from fish water
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Likely tourists from europe or asia. Maybe Canada and texas tourists.
Consumers will most benefit. And what a stupid question!
I thought it would be Jamaica since most stoners were influenced by Bob Marley, may his soul R.I.P. 🤔😂
Who will benefit the most? In Mexico? Um, the cartel.
Ummmm, Mexico......?
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The people who don’t smoke weed will benefit the most. Makes the person of average intelligence seem brilliant.
Juan
Hmm..
Mexican weed sucks.
Mexico is the scariest and bloodiest country in the world, especially the drug dealer group should disappear from the earth. Sooner or later, our U.S. army is going to level Mexico
me and my homies
Everyone.
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You shoot up pots once or twice next thing you know you OD and you're burning in eternal hellfire for toking the devils lettuce.
Probably car crash repairs ?
All the stoners in LA resulting the addition of another 100,000 psychotic people In California per year ..
No one, the herb they're growing is rubbish.
Mexican stoners?
Cartel 😂
me!
Not the USA prison system
Jefe
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