Mexico’s Supreme Court Strikes Down Marijuana Prohibition After Lawmakers Fail To Act

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Mexico’s Supreme Court Strikes Down Marijuana Prohibition After Lawmakers Fail To Act

Nearly three years after Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled that the nation’s marijuana prohibition is unconstitutional, it voted on Monday to end criminalization on its own because lawmakers failed to pass a legalization bill by a key deadline. The court in 2018 ordered the legislature to enact a...

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Mexico Top Court Decriminalizes Recreational Marijuana Use

Mexico's Supreme Court on Monday decriminalized recreational marijuana use for adults, declaring its prohibition under the health law to be unconstitutional, after a legalization bill stalled in Congress.

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Mexico's Supreme Court on Monday decriminalized recreational marijuana use for adults, declaring its prohibition under the health law to be unconstitutional, after a legalization bill stalled in Congress.

"Today is a historic day for liberties," court president Arturo Zaldivar said after the decision was approved by eight of the 11 judges.

The ruling comes after Congress failed to enact legislation legalizing recreational marijuana use by an April 30 deadline set by the country's highest court.

 

[Gomez Adams]

Way to go, Mexico!

 

[Hugo Stiglitz]

How fucking pathetic is it that Mexico beat us to it?

 

[Gomez Adams]

How fucking pathetic is it that Mexico beat us to it?

Very.