Mexico Legalizes Medical Cannabis

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Mexico Legalizes Medical Cannabis

A bill to legalize medical marijuana in Mexico has officially been passed into law, according to President Enrique Peña Nieto.

The new law directs the Ministry of Health to draft and implement regulations, with  “public policies regulating the medicinal use of pharmacological derivatives of cannabis sativa, indica and Americana or marijuana, including tetrahydrocannabinol, its isomers and stereochemical variants, as well as how to regulate the research and national production of them.”

The new law was passed by the nation’s lower house of parliament in April with an overwhelming vote of 371 to 11. “The ruling eliminates the prohibition and criminalization of acts related to the medicinal use of marijuana and its scientific research, and those relating to the production and distribution of the plant for these purposes,” the Lower House said in a statement on its website after its passage.

Mexico now joins just a small number of countries, including Canada, Uruguay and Portugal, that have legalized cannabis for medical purposes.

1 Comment

  • Doc Deadhead
    July 1, 2017

    The only problem with this law is the Government will be in total control of the cannabis growing, manufacturing and distribution of it.

    NO GOVERNMENT on this planet should be in control of ANY medicine.

    WTF? do they produce all the alcohol? Tobacco? morphine? Even a friggin ASPIRIN?

    This is NOT a good thing.

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