420 with CNW — Key Mexican Senator Outlines Cannabis Legalization Steps
Three years ago, the Supreme Court in Mexico ruled that the country's ban on cannabis consumption was unconstitutional, ending decades of cannabis prohibition and requiring that lawmakers reform cannabis laws. Mexico's Congress was granted a deadline to repeal prohibitionist cannabis policies, now considered unconstitutional, but policymakers failed to do so within the allotted time. Both chambers of Congress spent months discussing and working on a legalization bill, repeatedly asking the court to extend the deadline. Last year, the Senate passed a bill and sent it to the Chamber of Deputies, which made revisions and sent it back. However, after a…
