MEXICO CITY—Mexico is home to the world’s most powerful drug cartels, who have. But the country is poised to try something different in tackling the gangs by legalizing at least one of their products: marijuana.
Mexico is set to become the world’s largest legal cannabis market as its Congress wraps up legislation in the coming weeks to legalize pot throughout the supply chain, from farming to distribution and consumption. Mexico’s Senate passed a bill in late November legalizing recreational marijuana. Lawmakers in the lower house say they will approve a bill by February, though they want to raise the amount of pot consumers may possess in public beyond the Senate bill’s limit of 28 grams, or about an ounce.
Currently in Mexico, one can possess up to five grams of marijuana without being arrested. The use of marijuana for medicinal purposes has been legal since 2017. “We are committed to regulating cannabis. It’s a right of Mexicans,” said Ignacio Mier, the majority leader in Mexico’s lower house and a member of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena party, in an interview.
What happened when alcohol was made illegal? That's when the mafia gained strength and grew into a major criminal organization. Legalize it already! Take away that incentive. It's not rocket science.
I guess they decided it beats opening up a laundrette or car wash
Hooray
Why not sooner... better late than never
Canada did it first There are pot shops on every damn corner in alberta
They should, along with the rest of Latin America, decriminalize all drugs.
If you keep repeating what you've been doing and it doesn't work but you keep doing it ... that's called insanity. Albert Einstein.
I'm sure the drug cartels will just fold and get out of the marijuana business. The majority of their drugs aren't being sold in Mexico so not sure what difference this will make for the rest of us or the ppl of Mexico for that matter.
I can see it now... Sinaloa Brand Cannabis - on every store shelf in America brought to you by the Sinaloa Cartel and losers who just want to forget that life is hard
They make a tiny amount of revenue from domestic marijuana. Good first step though.
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ATTENTION ALL GOVERNMENTS! YOU KNOW YOUR DRUG CARTELS! YOUR THE GOVERNMENT! MAKE THEM VANISHED! But that would be too easy, MAKE PEOPLE SUFFER! If you remove the problem that's it, but too many rules! NAME AND SHAME PUBLIC DRUG CARTELS AND ANYONE ASSOCIATE TO THEM! WILL THEY ?
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Marijuana isn’t killing people.. we need our border secured from the cartel bringing in cocaine.. FINISHTHEWALL
Game changer that weed is going legal all over.
Legalization is the only answer
Good for them.
Down to seeds and stems again.
Interesting 🤔