Mexico Supreme Court says ban on recreational marijuana unconstitutional

[sandensea]

Source: Reuters

Mexico's Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that an absolute ban on recreational use of marijuana was unconstitutional, effectively leaving it to lawmakers to regulate consumption of the drug.

Announcing it had found in favor of two legal challenges filed against prohibition of recreational marijuana use, Mexico's top court crossed the threshold needed to create jurisprudence: five similar rulings on the matter.

That creates a precedent other Mexican courts will have to follow.

"This is a historic day," Fernando Belaunzaran, an advocate of drug reform and member of the opposition leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), said.

The Supreme Court made its first ruling to allow a group of people to grow marijuana for personal use in November 2015.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/mexico-supreme-court-says-ban-on-recreational-marijuana-unconstitutional/ar-BBPbZxw

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High times? A Mexican cannabis farmer inspects his crop.

[ZeroSomeBrains]

1. Great news

Maybe this will take some of power away from the drug cartels.

[sandensea]

2. Sheldon Adelson must be upset, that's for sure

"CIA? Yeah, it's Adelson. Can we infest Mexico with locusts like we did with Guatemala in '54?"

"We don't do that anymore, Mr. Adelson."

"Wait - what! Damn CIA's gotten softer than my junk! Get me Donald, you pissant!!"

[ZeroSomeBrains]

3. Haha

Maybe they can get the CIA to smuggle cocaine from Brazil to pay for a war with Mexico.

[sandensea]

4. Don't give Bolsonaro any ideas!

He's probably been pestering the CIA with this already.

[Achilleaze]

5. Why do they (R) always call cannabis a drug?

It's an herb. It grows wild in nature. Freaking corporations (R) and fearful fundies have morphed the herb into a drug.

[sandensea]

6. It's a convenient pretext to feed the private prison sector and persecute young people & minorities

Except wealthy young people, who are almost never convicted even when caught by police with very large amounts (I know of at least one such case in Laguna Beach, before it was legalized).

It's a win-win, as far as Republicans concerned.

[keithbvadu2]

14. The word "affluenza" comes to mind.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Because its products are drugs, like alcohol products and nicotine products are drugs. . . . nt

[Achilleaze]

12. Not flower, which is the main thing

It's herb, right of the plant till someone gets corporate with it.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Flower, bud, leaf, resin, etc. is product of the plant.

The plant produces flower.

Look, you are objecting to the wrong thing. The problem is not that cannabis is identified as the drug it is. The problem is that alchohol and tobacco are not identified as the drugs they are.

[Scurrilous]

7. We're soon to be surrounded by pothead nations!

[sandensea]

8. Well.

It's high time.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Sessions chortles gleefully as Canada crumbles into drug-addled depravity after legalization Oct 17

... or not.

[WhiteTara]

11. Now they can just sell in country to tourists and locals

and won't have to make that dangerous journey across the border to find customers, they'll all be flocking to the beaches of Mexico -- if any are left after the storms.

[keithbvadu2]

15. No sweat! Trump can make the ban constitutional (or not) with an EO.

No sweat! Trump can make the ban constitutional (or not) with an EO.

Just ask him.