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Mexico decriminalizes recreational marijuana consumption but not its commercialization

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - After the failure of the Mexican Congress to regulate recreational cannabis, the Supreme Court of Justice approved this Monday a historic ruling that lifts the prohibition of recreational marijuana self-consumption in Mexico. However, it does not endorse its commercialization.

"Today is a historic day for freedoms. After a long road, this Supreme Court consolidates the right to the free development of personality for the recreational use of marijuana," declared the High Court president, Arturo Zaldívar, after the vote.

The declaration of unconstitutionality was supported by eight of the eleven magistrates of the Supreme Court . . .

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