Enrique Peña Nieto says laws would halt ‘criminalising consumption’
The initiative signals a shift for the president,who has opposed legalisationUN critics call special session on drug policy ‘fatally flawed’
Mexico’s president Enrique Peña Nieto has announced plans to introduced laws to legalise medical marijuana and increase the quantity anyone can carry and consume for recreational purposes from five grams to 28 grams. His plan would also free some prisoners convicted of possessing small amounts of marijuana.
The proposed laws, he said on Thursday, and would halt “criminalising consumption” and also authorise the utilize of medicines made from a base of marijuana and or its active ingredients.
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Source: theguardian.com