In the framework of World Marijuana Dayactivists and consumers gathered outside the Senate of the Republic to hold a festival and demand a law to regulate its recreational consumption.
During the demonstration, there was a riot among those present and there was a stampede, the reasons for which are not known so far. So far, no injuries have been reported.
Journalist Israel Aldavefrom Formula Groupfound that marijuana sales have been presented at the event.
The fight for the legalization of marijuana has been going on for more than five years in Mexico.
One of the first breakthroughs came in 2015, when Juan Francisco Torres Landafounder of the Mexican Society of Responsible and Tolerant Self-Consumption (SMART), became one of the first four Mexicans to obtain an injunction from the supreme court to grow and consume marijuana for recreational purposes.
Subsequently, and although with a substantial delay following its approval in the Congress in 2017the regulation for the sale and distribution of medical marijuana in the country was published in 2021.
But disregarding the warrants of the Supreme Court up to three times, the Mexican Congress has failed to regulate recreational cannabis.
This despite the fact that the high court struck down in a historic ruling on June 28, 2021 the articles of the General Health Law that prohibited the use of recreational marijuana.
And on December 2, 2021, the Supreme Court granted an injunction where the prohibition of the planting, cultivation and harvesting of hemp “for purposes other than medical and scientific” was declared unconstitutional.
However, cannabis remains in a confusing legal limbo, since it is still penalized in the Penal Code and the Government has not yet granted permits for self-consumption, according to activists and consumers, who can still be arrested for carrying more than five grams of marijuana.
