{"id":34661,"date":"2019-08-22T15:10:07","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T15:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=34661"},"modified":"2019-08-22T15:10:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T15:10:07","slug":"mexican-court-approves-recreational-cocaine-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=34661","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Court Approves Recreational Cocaine Use"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Mexican court has granted two people the right to use cocaine recreationally in the first ruling of its kind. <\/p>\n

Mexico United Against Crime( MUCD ), a non-governmental organisation which seeks to end the country’s war on narcotics, filed legal articles in the case as part of its strategy to change the country’s medication policy.<\/p>\n

The court said it would not allow the claimants to sell cocaine but they would be permitted to’ possess, transport and use’ it; a decision MUCD described as’ historic in the understanding of the stimulant phenomenon’.<\/p>\n

However, government decisions cannot be put into practice until it has been reviewed by a higher court.<\/p>\n

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The Mexico City court ordered Cofepris, the country’s health authority, to authorise the two claimants’ employ of cocaine in May. However, a Cofepris official told the AFP news agency such an authorisation is outside its remit, so Cofepris took steps to block the court order.<\/p>\n

The decision will be reviewed by a tribunal and if a panel of magistrates approve of the original decision the ruling will come into effect, though it will apply only to the two people who brought the cases.<\/p>\n

In a statement, MUCD said the cases represent’ another step in the fight to construct alternative stimulant policies that allow[ Mexico] to redirect its security efforts and better address public health.’<\/p>\n

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According to CNN<\/a>, the organisation craves the government to reform drug policy as a path of improvement of public security. They have also campaigned for changes to legislation on marijuana.<\/p>\n

Lisa Sanchez, MUCD’s head, said \ud83d\ude1b TAGEND <\/p>\n

We have spent times working in the field of a more secure, simply and peaceful Mexico.<\/p>\n

This case is about insisting on the need to stop criminalising customers of drugs … and layout better public policies that explore all the available options, including regulation.<\/p>\n

Mexico’s President, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has promised’ radical’ alters when it comes to tackling medications. He has repeatedly planned decriminalising illegal drugs.<\/p>\n

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Mexico’s war on medications had been launched in 2006, when then-President Felipe Calderon sent the army to fight traffickers. The country is a major transit point for cocaine participating the United States.<\/p>\n

According to the Council on Foreign Relations<\/a>, there were 33, 341 drug-related homicides in Mexico in 2018- a 15 per cent of the members increase from the previous year and the highest number since “the two countries ” began keeping records.<\/p>\n

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Read more: unilad.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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