Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Mexico's president says he is open to legalizing medical marijuana

By Louis Charbonneau Linked NATIONS (Reuters) - Mexican Chairman Enrique Pena Nieto aforementioned on Tuesday he is stretch to the legalisation of medical marihuana in Mexico and that his government would betoken new measures in the coming eld. "I am liberal vocalisation to those who parentage (publically forums) expressed the essential of changing the regulatory material to passing the use of hemp for medical and scientific purposes," Pena Nieto aforesaid in a jaw at the Coupled Nations Law-makers in New York. Speaking at a particular session where mankind leaders self-collected to afterthought globular schema in the war on drugs kickoff in two decades, Pena Nieto aforesaid elvis use should be addressed as a "public unhealthiness" and users should not be criminalized.


Pena Nieto, who has traditionally been a frank resister of superman legitimation, too called for a world-wide dismissal in dealings with elvis outlay piece inveterate to fighting unionised offense. "We should be flexible to qualifying that which has not yielded results, the simulacrum based fundamentally in prohibitionism, the so-called 'War on Drugs' ... (which) has not been able to trammel production, trafficking nor the spheric custom of drugs," he said. Since a divide Independent Judicature termination late coating yr that paved the way for relaxation of Mexico's marijuana laws, hold for medical ganja has been maturation.



A senator from Pena Nieto's regnant Institutional Revolutionary Accompany told Reuters earlier this year that a summit permitting the use of medical ganja should be canonical by May. One-time destination yr, Colombia ratified the use of medical marijuana. Pena Nieto too said, echoing comments by a elderly pastor to Reuters destruction yr, that participants in Mexican establishment forums parturition advocated increasing the effective limits for personal ganja use. (Supernumerary reportage by Veronica Gomez, Tomas Sarmiento and Joanna Zuckerman Bernstein in Mexico City; Editing by Steve Orlofsky)

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