Mexico marijuana: Lower house passes recreational cannabis bill

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"Mexico's lower house has approved a bill that would legalise the recreational use of cannabis.

It will now go to the Senate for a final vote, which President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's party is confident will pass.

This would make Mexico one of the world's largest regulated markets for cannabis.

Mexico has struggled with a bloody war against powerful drug cartels, with violence killing thousands yearly.

Lawmakers voted in favour of the bill by 316 votes to 129. It had already been approved in the Senate in November but another vote is needed following some alterations by the lower house.

The legislation would let users with a permit carry up to 28g and grow as many as eight plants at home for personal use. At present, it is illegal to carry more than five grams."

Source: BBC World News

 

[Sunshineinabag]

I'd love to go on a Mexican cultivars tourist run! Too bad the country is run by the cartels

 

[buzzmobile]

I smoked some local bud in Oaxaca in 1976. Chartreuse buds that lifted me away on a mountainside above Oaxaca. I spent the night up there because I could not find my way down in the dark.
Vamonos!

 

[JustSumTomatoes]

Mexico's Senate will probably get it passed before the US Senate does, oh man.

 

[tobedetermined]

Mexico's Senate will probably get it passed before the US Senate does, oh man.

Probably? It looks like a certainty. They will probably pass it by the end of April because of a Supreme Court ruling that made prohibition and the prohibition laws unconstitutional.

The US will soon be sandwiched between 2 legal countries!

 

[EsterEssence]

It will be great for tourism, I’ll have to go find the stashes I left when I was vacationing in. the Baja, haha...

 

[JustSumTomatoes]

Probably? It looks like a certainty. They will probably pass it by the end of April because of a Supreme Court ruling that made prohibition and the prohibition laws unconstitutional.

The US will soon be sandwiched between 2 legal countries!

A bit of sarcasm on my part, but yes they certainly will. The rest of North America has moved forward without us, no surprise there.

 

[armedoldhippy]

Probably? It looks like a certainty. They will probably pass it by the end of April because of a Supreme Court ruling that made prohibition and the prohibition laws unconstitutional.

The US will soon be sandwiched between 2 legal countries!

pressure is on, caught in a vise of our own make by continuing the "war on drugs", lol. now we look like the lagging redneck relative that has to be dragged kicking & screaming into the future...

 

[yesum]

I knew this was coming. Cali being a dump now at least has the distinction of being in front of the legalizing of pot and the reason Mexico is moving on it. The cartels have human smuggling, extortion and lots of other drugs to sell so they will survive sadly.