Mexico‘s president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, posted a tweet that many thought would be an April Fool’s Day joke, but it wasn’t. AMLO criticized the US government with a statement in which he even attacked the NBA, although he did not mention it by name.
AMLO’s tweet says: “They threaten to invade, sell high-powered weapons in their markets, do nothing for their young people, unfortunately suffer from the terrible and deadly pandemic of fentanyl, but do not address the causes. They are not concerned about well-being, only money, they do not strengthen moral, cultural and spiritual values; they do not even limit drug use, on the contrary, they encourage it even in sports. It is sad and decadent.”
Another tweet followed in which he shared an article from the Mexican newspaper El Universal, which reported that the NBA will allow the use of marijuana in its players. The Mexican president wrote: “This is what I mean. It is contradictory and hypocritical.”
AMLO’s tweet had thousands of comments
With over 950,000 views at the time of this report, the tweet had over 3,200 comments, many of them criticizing the president for meddling in the affairs of another country. One user commented: “And why should it be prohibited if its medicinal and recreational use is legal in much of the US?”
Another wrote: “Those who defend Cannabis, if it is natural and can be used for medicinal purposes, among other things, but I bet they know more than one person who started with it and ended up with…
