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Just days after nearby California legalized recreational cannabis sales, a candidate for mayor of Mexico City has announced his support for the legalization of personal-use cannabis cultivation. “My proposal is the legalization of private cultivation for personal consumption, not for sale, in homes in Mexico City,” said Salomon Chertorivski, a nominee for the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), to Reuters this week. According to local opinion polls, the PRD is the second most popular choice among voters, trailing just behind the Morena party.
Chertorivski, a former federal health minister and a Mexico City government official, told Reuters that he believes drug use should be treated as a public health issue rather than a criminal concern. But instead of advocating for full decriminalization of all drugs as as has been done in Portugal, he says Mexico City should take a “step-by-step” approach, beginning with cannabis reform. Chertorivski also explained that legalization would take business away from drug cartels, who make millions of dollars dealing in black market marijuana and are responsible for over 140,000 deaths during…
