Advocates Rally In Mexico City To Demand Cannabis Reform

Cannabis reform advocates held a rally in Mexico City, Mexico over the weekend, demanding that the nation’s government modernize Mexico’s cannabis policies and regulations to expressly permit personal recreational cannabis activity.

“Thousands of people flooded the streets of Mexico City this weekend demanding free access to marijuana and cannabis.” reported 7 News Miami in its original coverage. “Protesters who took part in Saturday’s demonstration also demanded having the ability to grow it for personal use and for legal harassment of using it to end.”

The effort to modernize Mexico’s cannabis policies has taken many turns in recent years. Back in June 2021, Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled in an 8-3 decision that the prohibition of private recreational use of cannabis by adults was unconstitutional.

“Today is a historic day for liberties,” Supreme Court president Arturo Zaldívar said at the time. The Court’s decision did not extend to recreational cannabis commerce, and consuming cannabis in public remained prohibited in Mexico.

Part of the Court’s decision tasked lawmakers in Mexico with introducing, approving, and implementing an adult-use cannabis legalization model that included expressed limits for private adult-use activity and regulated sales. However, political leaders in Mexico have continued to fail to codify those public policy changes.