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Per week after Mexico's Supreme Court docket declared an outright ban on leisure marijuana unconstitutional, the nation is rapidly following via with laws.
Senator Olga Sanchez, President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's selection for inside minister, plans to ship a invoice to Congress that will permit the leisure use of marijuana within the nation.
Sanchez informed Reuters the invoice can be offered to Congress this week.
Mexico joins 2 different absolutely authorized international locations
With a inhabitants of 120 million individuals, a authorized Mexican marijuana market can be important. Final 12 months, it was estimated that the nation's medical marijuana market alone might be price $5 billion. Mexico legalized medical marijuana final 12 months, with the invoice receiving overwhelming help in Congress and the Senate.
The proposed leisure legislation would permit corporations to develop and promote marijuana and people to develop vegetation for personal use – however not more than 480 grams, or about 1 pound, might be registered and produced yearly.
With the legalization of weed for adults, Mexico joins two different international locations the place the drug is absolutely authorized – Uruguay and Canada – and 10 US states.
A significant growth within the battle on medicine?
Within the challenge printed on the web site of the Congress, Sanchez stated that since Mexico launched a battle on the cartels 12 years in the past, greater than 230,000 individuals have been killed – and the nation's place towards to marijuana contributed to the violence.
For the reason that laws is barely a proposal now, it’s tough to estimate the financial influence of full legalization in Mexico.
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