Le président du Mexique pourrait avoir bluffé au sujet de son soutien à la dépénalisation du cannabis

Tard ce vendredi, le sénat a ajourné les débats sur la légalisation de la marijuana médicale à septembre prochain. Pour en savoir plus, en anglais, veuillez lire les informations ci-dessous.

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By Alan Hernández - Vice News

The sudden derailing of much-anticipated reforms to legalize medical marijuana in Mexico, as well as raise the possession threshold, has raised doubts over whether President Enrique Peña Nieto's initial promotion of the ideas was ever anything more than good public relations.

"It looks like he never really wanted it," said drug policy expert and activist Lisa Sánchez, noting that it is the president's own Institutional Revolutionary Party that has blocked the reforms. "It's either that, or the PRI now considers that Peña is a liability and his opinion is worth nothing from now until the next presidential elections in 2018."

Sánchez was trying to explain what happened to make the PRI recoil from a proposal that President Peña submitted to legislators in late April. This included both the legalization of marijuana-based medication, and raising the amount of marijuana individuals can carry without risking criminal prosecution from five to 28 grams, or one ounce.

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