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Tightening 🇲🇽 Mexico

Mexico makes cannabis use and cultivation federal crimes

A new federal penal code placed marijuana activities under "Crimes Against Health" and made any use, simple possession and cultivation federal crimes. The 1926 sanitary code had already prohibited possession and consumption, so this entry supplies legal context without moving the index again.[1]

Listed for context. No score change is recorded for Mexico here.

References

  1. A Historical Approach to the Criminalization of Marijuana Use in MexicoJosé Domingo Schievenini · In Cannabis: Global Histories, edited by Lucas Richert, James H. Mills · MIT Press · 2021 · pp. 131–156 · ISBN 9780262366137

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