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Cannabis in Mexico is legal for both recreational and medicinal purposes. It became legal for recreational purposes in June 2021, upon application and issuance of a permit from the health secretariat, COFEPRIS ( Comisión Federal para la Protección contra Riesgos Sanitarios ). [ 1 ]
Country/Territory Recreational Medical Notes Afghanistan Illegal Illegal Main article: Cannabis in Afghanistan Production banned by King Zahir Shah in 1973. Albania Illegal Legal Main article: Cannabis in Albania Prohibited but plants highly available throughout the country and law often unenforced. On 21 July 2023 the Albanian Parliament voted 69–23 to legalize medical cannabis. Algeria ...
The Mexican Cannabis Institute (Instituto del Cannabis para la Pacificación y Reconciliación del Pueblo) is a proposed agency of the Mexican federal government, under the Secretariat of the Interior, that would oversee national legalization of cannabis.
On July 31, 2013, the Uruguayan House of Representatives approved a bill to legalize the production, distribution, sale, and consumption of marijuana by a vote of 50 to 46. Relating this vote to the 2012 legalization of marijuana by the U.S. states Colorado and Washington, John Walsh, drug policy expert of the Washington Office on Latin America ...
A sign for a cannabis shop in Portland, Oregon.Cannabis has been gradually legalized for recreational use in some U.S. states since 2012.. Drug liberalization is a drug policy process of decriminalizing, legalizing, or repealing laws that prohibit the production, possession, sale, or use of prohibited drugs.
Timeline of Gallup polls in US on legalizing marijuana. [1]In the United States, cannabis is legal in 39 of 50 states for medical use and 24 states for recreational use. At the federal level, cannabis is classified as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act, determined to have a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use, prohibiting its use for any purpose. [2]
2017: Cyprus legalized cannabis oil for advanced stage cancer patients. [100] 2017: Belize decriminalized possession or use of 10 grams or less on private premises. [101] 2017: Greece legalized cannabis for medical use. [102] 2017: Peru legalized cannabis oil for medical use. [103] 2017: Luxembourg legalized cannabis for medical use. [104] [105]
In 2019, the US gained a total of 1.7 billion dollars in tax revenue due to the legalization of marijuana. In 2021, that number more than doubled to 3.7 billion dollars. [14] The increase in tax revenue being a driving factor in the legalization of marijuana is similar to the effects of the repeal of prohibition.