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MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Armando Santacruz, a 54-year-old businessman, had been trying to convince congressmen for nearly a year to get Mexico to legalize and regulate drugs, starting with marijuana. It was an uphill battle in a country where drug crime has tore at the fabric of society. In private, congressmen were open to the conversation, Santacruz said, but publicly, they appeared vehemently opposed to discussing the issue.
Santacruz and his colleagues — a businessman, a lawyer, and a 67-year-old grandmother, all members of an NGO called Mexicans United Against Crime — realized they needed a more creative strategy. So they formed the Mexican Society for Responsible and Tolerant Consumption (SMART, in Spanish) and asked a branch of the Health Ministry for permission to grow, carry and smoke their own marijuana.
Now they’re headed to the Supreme Court.
It’s not that the four-person group wants to smoke the weed they’re...
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