Mexico's Supreme Court rules marijuana prohibition unconstitutional, but what's next?

While the Mexican Supreme Court has legalised growing and consuming marijuana for a single case, many feel that this is the first step towards a nationwide legalisation. But what does this mean for the country?

MEXICO CITY – Since 2013 four plaintiffs from the advocacy group Mexican Society for Tolerant Consumption (SMART) have been fighting the case after they were denied permission by Mexican health authorities to grow marijuana for personal use. The court ruled in a four to one decision that the prohibition of marijuana for personal use violated the four plaintiffs’ “right to free development of personality” and, as as a result, was unconstitutional.

Whilst not interested in growing or consuming marijuana themselves, the legal action was initiated as a strategic means to further drug liberalisation. SMART argued that an individual’s right to consume marijuana should be respected by the state and be treated as a health matter, not...

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