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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Former Mexican president says country will legalise all drugs within a decade 🌿Former Mexican president says country will legalise all drugs within a decade
All drugs including cocaine, heroin and crystal meth will be legal in Mexico within 10 years, said the country’s former president Vicente Fox, after a court ruling that he said makes the legalisation of marijuana inevitable.
“I think marijuana [legalisation] is a first step,” Fox told Reuters on Tuesday. “It’s now irreversible.”
Fox was president between 2000 and 2006 and became an advocate of legalising drugs after leaving office.
Earlier this month, the supreme court approved growing marijuana for recreational use. The landmark decision blasts open the door for an eventual legalisation in Mexico, where warring gangs have waged a decade of drug violence.
Now that the court has ruled that it is unconstitutional to prevent people from smoking marijuana, Fox said it would eventually have to make a similar decision for drugs like cocaine and heroin.
“The other drugs will take a longer cycle, say five to 10...
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