Mexico Senate Leader Seeks to Legalize Marijuana This Spring
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A Mexican soldier secures an illegal marijuana grow in the municipality of Cosala, state of Sinaloa, Mexico.
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Mexico’s Senate is set to debate bills to legalize marijuana and regulate outsourcing in the coming period from February to April.
The Senate will debate a bill co-authored by Senate Majority Leader Ricardo Monreal to regulate planting, production, labeling, sales and distribution, and would make it free for medical use, according to a document sent by the senator’s office. It would also create the Mexican Institute for Regulation and Control of Cannabis to create rules for points of sale and the allowed THC contents for products.