On March 10, the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Mexican Congress, passes a bill that will regulate recreational use of cannabis, after an extensive process that has lasted more than two years and during which its medical use has been decriminalized. With 316 votes in favor, 129 against and 23 abstentions, the bill proposal still must pass another vote in the Senate on April 30, due to a series of modifications introduced by another law approved last November. The new legislation will bring recreational use of marijuana closer to legality and will set Mexico to become the world’s largest legal cannabis market.
According to the new law, any adult within the Mexican territory is free to smoke cannabis for own personal use but needs to observe some limitations: possession for users will be permitted...
