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Not even two weeks ago, the Parliament in Mexico overwhelmingly voted in favor of medical marijuana for their entire country. The legislation gained significant momentum last December when the Mexican Senate voted 98-7 for cannabis as medicine. All eyes are now on President Peña Nieto who must offer his final approved of the bill with a signature.
Senator Cristina Diaz Salazar of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was the person responsible for introducing the bill in November of 2015 and has now seen the fruits of her labor cultivate into pending legislation.
Marijuana.com recently spoke with Senator Salazar:
How do you feel about the pending legislation to legalize medical cannabis?
I am very excited about the historic reform that was finally passed in the Lower House, and which we had passed in the Senate last December.
Hopefully, the Executive will publish it soon so the implementation can start. It is very touching for me to see that we will finally be able to help thousands of patients and their families to have access to cannabis-based medications. This is the only hope of treatment for many of them, particularly those with more chronic or advanced…
