Mexican lawmakers look to change marijuana policy
Members of Congress called Monday for changing Mexico's punitive marijuana laws at hearings on the use of the plant, whose cultivation and use were approved by the Supreme Court for four citizens last year.
"We have the challenge of proposing an alternative to the problem of the illegal market for marijuana and its negative consequences. Or remain as we are, running the risk of compromising the health, security and dignity of people," the speaker of the lower house of Congress, Jesus Zambrano, said at the start of the session.
Anti-drug policy around the world has been based on punishment, Zambrano, a member of the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD, said.
This approach has resulted in "unusual consequences," such as the appearance of new drugs, the growth of organized crime groups and human rights violations, among other negative effects, Zambrano said.
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