Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto Open To Legalizing Medical Marijuana
Speaking at a United Nations General Assembly Special Session on drugs, being held in New York from April 19-21, Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto said Tuesday that he supported the legalization of marijuana for medical and scientific purposes, as well as increasing the amount of cannabis that can be legally possessed for personal consumption.
Speaking at the special session — a gathering of world leaders to discuss, for the first time in two decades, the strategy for the war on drugs — the Mexican president reportedly said that drug users should not be criminalized, and that drug use should be treated as a “public health problem.”
Peña Nieto has traditionally been a strident opponent of drug legalization, and cultivation and sale of marijuana has been illegal in Mexico since 1926. But a ruling by Mexico’s Supreme Court last year allowed for liberalization of the country’s marijuana laws.
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