Deadline looms for Mexico cannabis legislation

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The country’s leaders have spent almost two years toing-and-froing as they dither over setting the legalisation of cannabis into Mexico’s constitution. Senators scrapped criminal laws over cannabis cultivation and use in 2018, paving the way for legalisation. The financial prospects for Mexican industrialists are huge – if the pot policies are settled by December, then Mexico will instantly become the world’s largest cannabis market. THE farcical fallout of Mexico’s repeated inability to agree on legislation over its marijuana laws has seen the country’s lawmakers facing just two months to settle disputes before its latest deadline. Chiefly, the space and time for big businesses to line up monopolies of the production, processing and sale of cannabis products.

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THE farcical fallout of Mexico’s repeated inability to agree on legislation over its marijuana laws has seen the country’s lawmakers facing just two months to settle disputes before its latest deadline.

The country’s leaders have spent almost two years toing-and-froing as they dither over setting the legalisation of cannabis into Mexico’s constitution.

Senators scrapped criminal laws over cannabis cultivation and use in 2018, paving the way for legalisation. Regulation of any kind has been in limbo since.

It is almost a year to the day that Senator Ricardo Monreal – leader of the ruling MORENA party – confirmed marijuana...

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