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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Mexico is having the grown-up conversation about marijuana that every country should have 🌿Mexico is having the grown-up conversation about marijuana that every country should have
Mexican lawmakers this week launched a national debate on a topic that officials around the world have been struggling to address: marijuana legalization.
Over the next three weeks, the Mexican Congress is holding a series of public hearings (link in Spanish) on whether and how to regulate marijuana. The discussions will range from nitty-gritty—how should marijuana’s potency be classified?—to broad issues such as the effects of marijuana prohibition on public safety.
If not outright legalization, the exercise is likely to result in policy changes, such as regulating medicinal pot and lifting the maximum amount of the drug that users can carry without facing jail time, Alejandro Madrazo, a professor at research university CIDE, tells Quartz. (The current limit is five grams, or less than a quarter ounce.)
The debate is taking place ahead of a special United Nations summit on drug policy, UNGASS 2016, the first of its kind in nearly...
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