Marijuana Aficionados and Supporters Gather at Cannabis Hub in Mexico City Reuters
go to original May 8, 2016

Mexico's Marijuana Fair Pushes For Legalization (Reuters/WorldMojNews)

Mexico City's marijuana fair was held in Mexico City last week, offering advice and products on cannabis as well as promoting a campaign in the country to make the plant legal..

Called the Cannabis Hub, the event has been dubbed an exchange of ideas on marijuana and features horticulturists, producers as well as growers from other countries to add to a diverse discussion on the controversial drug.

Growing and selling marijuana is illegal in Mexico and a mainstay business of violent drug gangs. Despite a growing number of politicians calling for its legalization to curb cartel violence, there is still a large section of Mexican society opposed to moves towards the production and sale of the plant.

A landmark Supreme Court decision late last year that paved the way for liberalization of Mexico's marijuana laws and a senator from President Enrique Pena Nieto's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party told Reuters earlier this year that a bill permitting the use of medical marijuana should be approved by this month.

If the move is successful, it would put Mexico in line with countries like Uruguay which became the first country to legalese the growing, sale and smoking of marijuana in 2013.

Related: Expert Opinion Divided Over Poppy Regulation in Mexico (El Universal)

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Related: Push Continues for Legal Poppy Farming (Mexico News Daily)

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