PRESIDENT-ELECT’S PARTY SUBMITS LEGISLATION THAT WOULD EFFECTIVELY LEGALIZE MARIJUANA IN MEXICO

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that the National Regeneration Movement or MORENA, the party of president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador, recently submitted legislatio

n that, if approved, would legalize the possession, use, cultivation, and sale of marijuana in Mexico.

The legislation was proposed following the Mexican Supreme Court’s historic rulings that effectively ended the country’s categorical ban on recreational marijuana.

If the proposed bill is approved, Mexico will join Canada, Uruguay, and a number of U.S. states including California in legalizing the recreational use of marijuana.

Political support for the legalization of marijuana has been growing in the past few years in Mexico with prominent Mexican political figures like Ernesto Zedillo and Vicente Fox, both former presidents of Mexico, voicing support for the legalization of the recreational use of marijuana as a means of fighting Mexico’s intractable drug war.