Items tagged with mexico
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| Mexico may be next to legalise marijuana, says incoming FM [23.10.2018] | Mexico "absolutely" could follow Canada's lead in legalising marijuana as a way to reduce violence generated by a war on drugs that "doesn't work," i ... |
| Mexico president-elect says will look at legalizing some drugs [08.10.2018] | Mexico's President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said that he would consider legalizing certain drugs as part of a broader strategy to fight pove ... |
| Trump kicks off UN general assembly with ‘problematic’ drug policy document [24.09.2018] | Donald Trump has kicked off the 2018 United Nations General Assembly by announcing what experts have labelled a problematic agreement to tackle the w ... |
| Mexico’s new president has a radical plan to end the drug war [15.08.2018] | Since the military took to the streets to fight the increasingly powerful and violent cartels producing and trafficking drugs north to consumers in t ... |
| Will Mexico legalize drugs? [18.07.2018] | Mexico’s President-elect López Obrador has considered unconventional methods to address his nation’s ills. In a country riddled with corruption and c ... |
| Incoming Mexican president to seek negotiated peace in drug war [06.07.2018] | Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s transition team unveiled a plan to shake up the fight against crime, including reduced jail tim ... |
| In bloody drug war, Mexico's new leader may try negotiating [02.07.2018] | For the past 12 years, Mexico has fought violent drug gangs by deploying thousands of police, soldiers and intelligence officers to crack down on car ... |
| The year Mexico legalised drugs [18.06.2018] | On 5 January 1940, Mexico's left-wing president, Lázaro Cárdenas, signed the new Federal Regulation of Drug Addiction into law. The new legislation w ... |
| Medicinal cannabis policies and practices around the world [24.04.2018] | Although cannabis remains a prohibited substance worldwide, in recent decades a series of political, legislative and judicial processes in various pa ... |
| U.S. has been quietly helping Mexico with new, high-tech ways to fight opium [15.04.2018] | In the past few opiate-soaked years, U.S. officials say, nearly all the heroin coursing through American cities has come from one place: Mexico. “The ... |
| Mexican states should start legalizing marijuana - tourism minister [12.04.2018] | Taking a lead from the United States, Mexico should allow states to begin legalizing marijuana while broader efforts are in limbo, Tourism minister E ... |
| Mexicans are buying legal weed in California, reversing a century-long trend of drug smuggling [18.03.2018] | During the past century of cannabis prohibition, a steady flow of illegal marijuana has been smuggled across the border from Mexican farms to America ... |
| Poppies, opium, and heroin [01.03.2018] | Poppy cultivation in Mexico and Colombia is part of a local economy geared almost exclusively toward the illegal market abroad: it is driven by deman ... |
| Rabobank to pay $369 million in money-laundering case [08.02.2018] | Dutch lender Rabobank’s California unit agreed to pay $369 million to settle allegations that it lied to regulators investigating allegations of laun ... |
| In Mexico, is legalized pot just a pipe dream? [05.02.2018] | At a conference in late January, Mexico's top tourism official told reporters legalizing marijuana would help combat an epidemic of violence that has ... |
| Legal marijuana cuts violence says US study, as medical-use laws see crime fall [14.01.2018] | The introduction of medical marijuana laws has led to a sharp reduction in violent crime in US states that border Mexico, according to new research. ... |
| On the hunt for poppies In Mexico — America's biggest heroin supplier [14.01.2018] | Mexico's southwestern Guerrero state is now the top source of heroin for the American drug epidemic, which resulted in more than 64,000 overdose deat ... |
| US turns to Trump targets – UN, China and Mexico – for help in opioid crisis [07.01.2018] | The president declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency, with most recent government estimates suggesting the more than 64,000 fatal overd ... |
| Legal pot: Mexico to sell space cakes, cannabis drinks and marijuana lipsticks [21.12.2017] | Mexico is set to legalize the sale of marijuana-based products early next year, despite the country’s struggles with the illicit drug trade. Mexico’s ... |
| A banker who helped hide Mexican drug money is helping U.S. prosecutors [18.12.2017] | A former U.S. manager for Dutch banking giant Rabobank Groep says he helped hide possible criminal activity by clients and is assisting U.S. prosecut ... |
| Mexico legalises medical marijuana [21.06.2017] | Medicinal cannabis has been made legal in Mexico. The President, Enrique Pena Nieto, has officially published a bill allowing its use for health and ... |
| In Mexico, the price of America’s hunger for heroin [30.05.2017] | The opioid epidemic that has caused so much pain in the United States is also savaging Mexico, contributing to a breakdown of order in rural areas. H ... |
| The No. 1 reason why Trump’s wall won’t fix the drug problem [25.04.2017] | Experts on the drug trade say a border wall, even one as big and beautiful as Trump promised, would be near-impotent in stemming the supply of illega ... |
| Mexico opens up its heroin fight to U.S., U.N. observers [07.04.2017] | For the first time in at least a decade, Mexico's army is allowing the United States and the United Nations to observe opium poppy eradication, a ste ... |
| People in Latin America are starting to turn against outlawing marijuana [27.02.2017] | Sentiments in Latin America in favor of outlawing marijuana appear to be undergoing shifts in some countries, according to a study published the Inte ... |
| Gang-ravaged Mexico stuck in weed ban as U.S. opens up [29.12.2016] | Mexican advocates for drug reform are voicing alarm about the country's widening gap with the United States on marijuana legislation, as criminal vio ... |
| Mexican attitudes to marijuana mellow [24.12.2016] | In november 57% of Californians voted to legalise the growing and use of marijuana for recreational purposes. Liberalisation in the most populous bor ... |
| Mexican Senate passes medical marijuana bill [13.12.2016] | Mexico's Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill that would allow for the use of medical marijuana, in a further step toward outright legalization in a ... |
| Deaths involving fentanyl rise as curbing illicit supply proves tough [17.11.2016] | To get in front of production, the State Department and a group of U.S. senators asked the United Nations in October to add to the list of tightly co ... |
| Election may be a turning point for legal marijuana [23.10.2016] | To the red-and-blue map of American politics, it may be time to add green. The movement to legalize marijuana, the country’s most popular illicit dru ... |
| Cannabis in Latin America and the Caribbean [15.09.2016] | Cannabis (or marihuana) is one of the most widely consumed psychoactive substances in the world. According to the United Nations World Drug Report, 1 ... |
| Mexico president following California marijuana vote - state lawmaker [14.09.2016] | Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, who has proposed liberalizing his country's drug laws, privately asked California lawmakers visiting Mexico abo ... |
| The pot law that could be 'deal-breaker for the drug war' [04.07.2016] | California's pot legalization initiative, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), qualified for the ballot in November, setting the stage for a vote t ... |
| Is the global cocaine trade in decline? [23.06.2016] | The latest United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 2016 World Drug Report presents a long-term analysis of cocaine production, seizures and ... |
| Mexico's president may have been bluffing about his support for weed decriminalization [19.06.2016] | The sudden derailing of much-anticipated reforms to legalize medical marijuana in Mexico, as well as raise the possession threshold, has raised doubt ... |
| The human-rights case for drug legalization [06.06.2016] | The first shot in Mexico’s drug war was fired in December 2006, when Mexican President Felipe Calderon sent 6,500 security forces to reclaim Michoaca ... |
| Lack of progress and transparency at the UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs [26.04.2016] | The first meeting of UNGASS since 1998 was supposed to be a game changer in prodding the lumbering and often draconian UN drug policy regime into ser ... |
| Rethinking the global war on drugs [25.04.2016] | The U.S. is in the untenable position of violating the existing treaties — now that four states have legalized the sale of recreational marijuana. Th ... |
| Mexico's president proposes legalising medical marijuana [21.04.2016] | Following his statement at the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) in which he called for more prevention, partial decriminaliza ... |
| The movement to legalize pot gains speed in the Americas [21.04.2016] | In the shift toward legalization of marijuana, the Americas have emerged as a leader. This is a remarkable shift for a region that includes some of t ... |
| UN backs prohibitionist drug policies despite call for more 'humane solution' [19.04.2016] | The 2016 UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) has approved an agreement that leaves in place the prohibitionist policies banning narcotics us ... |
| ‘Addicted to punishment' [13.04.2016] | Latin American leaders may be patting themselves on the back for engineering next week’s Special Session of the UN General Assembly in New York to re ... |
| The world's most powerful drug lord has been linked to the Panama Papers [06.04.2016] | Documents from global law firm Mossack Fonseca leaked to journalists have linked the firm to two alleged money launderers and drug traffickers tied t ... |
| A Quiet Revolution [14.03.2016] | This is the second edition of ‘A Quiet Revolution: Drug Decriminalisation Across the Globe’. The first edition was released in July 2012 and has sinc ... |
| HSBC sued over drug cartel murders after laundering probe [08.02.2016] | Families of U.S. citizens murdered by drug gangs in Mexico sued HSBC Holdings Plc, claiming the bank can be held responsible for the deaths because i ... |
| Key lawmaker urges Mexico to legalize marijuana [24.01.2016] | The President of Chamber of Deputies Jesus Zambrano said that Mexico should move ahead with entirely permitting marijuana usage. Mexico should follow ... |
| Mexican marijuana farmers see profits tumble as U.S. loosens laws [30.12.2015] | The loosening of marijuana laws across much of the United States has increased competition from growers north of the border, apparently enough to dri ... |
| 'Grandma's magic remedy:' Mexico's medical marijuana secret [13.12.2015] | When her legs ache, this Mexican grandmother rubs them with marijuana-infused alcohol. She is well aware the homemade remedy defies the country's can ... |
| Mexico's president condemns legal marijuana push amid national debate [01.12.2015] | Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto has come out strongly against legalizing marijuana on the same day his government announced a national public de ... |
| Latin America’s crackdown on drugs defies its progressive rhetoric [12.11.2015] | “We were having dinner—my daughter, grandchild, and me,” says Ramona, a 67-year-old Mexican woman who is serving a sentence of four-and-a-half years ... |
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