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Mexican senate passes medical marijuana bill

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Mexico’s Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill on Tuesday Dec. 13 that would allow for the use of medical marijuana, in a further step toward outright legalization in a country long wracked by warring drug cartels, Reuters reported.

The bill, part of a proposal that President Enrique Peña Nieto submitted to Congress earlier this year, must also be passed by Mexico’s lower house to become law.

The measure passed 98-7.

Demonstrators hold up marijuana as they take part in a rally for the legalization of marijuana in Mexico City, May 7, 2016. REUTERS/Henry Romero

Demonstrators hold up marijuana as they take part in a rally for the legalization of marijuana in Mexico City, May 7, 2016. REUTERS/Henry Romero



Since a court ruling last year, the government has allowed the importation on a case-by-case basis of medicine with cannabidiol (CBD), an active chemical ingredient of the drug.

The bill passed on Tuesday envisages permitting use of products containing the psychoactive ingredient tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).

The measure would also allow for production of marijuana for scientific and medicinal purposes.

“It’s been years that we’ve been fighting for acknowledgment and approval and recognition of the medical and therapeutic uses of cannabis, and today we finally have something,” said Lisa Sanchez, director of drug policy for Mexico Unido Contra la Delincuencia, a group working to curb crime.

Tuesday’s decision was “not the end of the road,” she added.

Recreational marijuana is still broadly prohibited in Mexico, but last year the Supreme Court granted four people the right to grow their own marijuana for personal consumption, opening the door to legalization.

Source: reuters.com

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