Cancun to Host First National Forum on Marijuana Legalization Next Week Tequan Wright - Latin Post
go to original January 21, 2016

The president of Mexico said that he would not be in favor of legalizing marijuana, even though the country’s Supreme Court said recently that it should be. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian of The Young Turks discuss. (The Young Turks)

Mexico will hold its first national forum debating the legal use of marijuana on Jan. 26 in Cancun, an Interior Ministry official said this week.

President Enrique Peña Nieto ordered the discussion, with four more forums to follow throughout the winter and into the spring, The Yucatan Times reports.

According to the Undersecretary of the Interior Ministry for Human Rights, Roberto Campa, a new digital platform will allow for a debate concerning the design of new public policies and the international impact of legalization. The forum will survey laws in 14 different countries and three U.S. states that have legalized the drug.

The announcement follows last year's ruling by the Supreme Court of Mexico, in which the five-justice panel allowed four people legal recreational use of marijuana under the right of "free development of personality," according to Leafly.

Legalization advocates were surprised but pleased by the verdict, giving them hope that it would lead to a national conversation about marijuana.

Top companies and marijuana investors have begun to show interest in Mexico as a promising business opportunity as well, Reuters reports.

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