Mexico’s Supreme Court decriminalizes recreational marijuana use after Senate failed to act

The Supreme Court of Mexico ( SCJN ) decriminalized the recreational use of marijuana in Mexico on Monday in a historic step for human rights in Mexico, according to its presiding minister, Arturo Zaldívar, and after a long wait due to the failure to regulate it in Congress.

The Plenary of the highest Court of the country voted 8-3 in favor of the General Declaration of Unconstitutionality (DGI) of the sections in Mexican law that prohibit the recreational use of cannabis, sometimes also called “adult consumption".

“Today is a historic day for freedoms. After a . . .