While just a third of US states have legalized recreational marijuana, Mexico — a country in which drug violence has killed scores of thousands — is moving to legalize marijuana for recreational use.
This legalization will leave America sandwiched between two countries with legal marijuana, Mexico to the south and Canada, which legalized recreational marijuana in 2018, to the north. And it is likely to stay that way, despite today’s action by the US House to decriminalize marijuana — an enormous accomplishment in and of itself — which will likely go nowhere in the US Senate.
As to how Mexico’s move would affect illegal crossings into the US, a study by the Cato Group showed that marijuana seizures have fallen steadily since states began legalizing the drug in 2012.
It was in 2018 that Mexico’s supreme court declared that the country’s existing laws governing possession and cultivation of marijuana were unconstitutional. The country’s governing bodies are now trying to come up with a bill that can be passed before the court-ordered December 15 deadline. The Senate recently approved the legislation, and by a large margin, Reuters reported. Mexico’s other congressional body, the Chamber of Deputies, has yet to do so.
According to Marijuana Moment, the legislation, which is currently being considered in several committees, may be amended before a final…
