Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Thursday proposed to legalize marijuana for therapeutic purposes, as well as mitigate the constraints of the light of the drug for recreational use, but this statement marks a turn past the government, which is engaged in a bitter war against drugs smugglers, position.
E.Penos Nieto decision to send to Congress to consider this an extremely important bill that has become a national debate on the use of cannabis
regulatory outcome. This topic has recently been increasingly debated in both American continents.
Congress in the project is planned to allow the use of medicinal products which contain cannabis or their active substances, as well as increase the amount of marijuana that can legitimately be considered for personal use - from 5 to 28 grams.
However, a potential law does not provide for full legalization of marijuana things according to activists, last year won a historic Supreme Court case and to ensure that individuals are allowed to grow and smoke cannabis.
E.Pena Nieto said that the proposed legislation seeks to restore the "two kinds of injustice: not set up for patients to use cannabis products, as well as" disproportionate "rigorous imprisonment for persons arrested for marijuana storage.
"Mexicans very well known in this prohibitionist and criminal schemes, as well as the so-called war on drugs, incumbent for more than 40 years at the international level, extent and limits", - said the President.
For more than 100 thousand. people were killed or disappeared since 2006, when the Mexican government sent troops to fight drug smugglers.
If the proposed law to be passed, in Mexico to import drugs, which include both cannabis or tetrahidrocanabinol (THC) - the main psychoactive plant material.
Meanwhile, cannabis, which would have allowed for personal use, in line with international standards, "explained Nieto E.Pena.
Mexico's decision is consistent with a trend that has recently emerged in other countries of the region.
Canada's health minister said Thursday that his government will propose next year to legalize marijuana, and Uruguay in 2013 became the first country in the world, completely įteisinusioje cannabis.
In December, Colombia, which also is facing drug-related violence, the president signed a decree, establishing hemp medicinal preparations.
In the United States, which is the largest of the Mexican consumer transported drugs, 23 states are formal mechanisms of cannabis products, while another four, as well as the capital city of Washington, legalized recreational marijuana use.
