Cannabis Freedom Index
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Tightening 🇲🇽 Mexico

Mexico's Sanitary Code prohibits possession and consumption

Index score

1311

−2 points

The code prohibited importing, exporting, processing, possessing, using or consuming marijuana in any form, including cannabis extract. It also provided for users of controlled drugs to be confined in a federal drug-treatment hospital.[1]

Score by segment 0 to 10

  1. Possession · 25%1 1
  2. Personal cultivation · 25%1 1
  3. Punishment & enforcement · 20%2 2
  4. Sharing & gifting · 10%1 1
  5. Consumption · 10%3 1−2
  6. Legal access · 10%0 0

The bar shows the score after the change; the tick marks where it stood before. Mexico's scores have changed again since.

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

Checked. The date and the event were compared with a source that was read. The score before the change is an editorial estimate.

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