Mexico to Hold First National Forum on Marijuana Legalization

Mexico will hold its first national forum debating the legal use of marijuana on Jan. 26 in Cancun, an Interior Ministry official said this week.

President Enrique Peña Nieto ordered the discussion, with four more forums to follow throughout the winter and into the spring, The Yucatan Times reports.

According to the Undersecretary of the Interior Ministry for Human Rights, Roberto Campa, a new digital platform will allow for a debate concerning the design of new public policies and the international impact of legalization. The forum will survey laws in 14 different countries and three U.S. states that have legalized the drug.

The announcement follows last year's ruling by the Supreme Court of Mexico, in which the five-justice panel allowed four people legal recreational use of marijuana under the right of "free development of personality," according to Leafly.

Legalization advocates were surprised but pleased by the...

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