Mexico City government mulls legalization of marijuana

Link to article: The Telegraph


Mexico City has put a bill forth that proposes to legalize marijuana. This bill allows shops to sell up to 5 grams of the drug. However, the bill has many setbacks on a few key points, and is silent about how many shops will be allocated, regulated, taxed, or enforced. The bill is projected to have a strong chance of approval because of the city's governmental leadership. If approved, Mexico City legislature could find itself on bad terms with the federal government. The federal government, strongly conservative at the moment, is highly against its legalization.

This is a unique bill considering that Mexico is notorious for it's massive, organized, and violent drug cartels and has contributed to much of the flow of narcotics towards the United States. If legalization occurred nationally in Mexico, there could be easily identifiable ramifications that could extremely validate either pro-legalization or anti-legalization activists. I do have a problem with the bill they are trying to pass in Mexico City. The bill is not specific enough. If you are going to legalize marijuana and want to encourage and continue its legalization into other areas even nationally, you better do it right. It won't do any good if the legalization of marijuana causes more problems, especially because you could've avoided the problems by controlling and utilizing it by law. They need to put much more thought into the bill before they pass it.