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Security & Strategic Review - December 2015 (ISSN 1741-4202)
MEXICO: Court ruling triggers cannabis liberalisation debate
It started in early November when the supreme court ruled in favour of four campaigners who challenged the constitutionality of the legislation that criminalises the personal use of cannabis. President Enrique Peña Nieto said he still opposed full legislation but within little more than a month the leader of the ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), the mayor of Mexico City and the Roman Catholic archbishop of the capital were proposing a full ‘national debate’ on the matter. Concern has been expressed in many quarters about the implications of any major shift in this direction for the ‘war on drugs’.
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