translated from Spanish: President of Mexico proposes to eliminate the ban on the drug in the country

The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador sent a document to the Congress which held that the prohibition of narcotic drugs is “unsustainable” and that, as policy on public health and safety, has failed. On that line, it included the proposal to eliminate the prohibition in the National Development Plan 2019-2024, which also sets out the grounds for such a measure. According to the document indicates that in the majority of countries where the ban this policy has been applied “not resulted in a reduction of consumption” and adds that “worse still, the model prohibitionist criminalizes inevitably consumers and” It reduces their chances of social reintegration and rehabilitation”. Also refers to the so-called ‘war on drugs’, started in 2006, which finally developed what was a problem of public health in a security crisis. The alternative proposed in the document is that “the State renounces the claim of combating addictions through the prohibition of the substances that generate them, and engages to keep under control of people who already have them through a clinical follow-up and” the supply of dose prescription”. In progrsion to this State will have custom and medically-supervised detoxification treatments to people with addiction. Although it indicates that there is an understanding of the context, and therefore this initiative should seek negotiated way, both in the bilateral relationship with the United States, country of destination of most of the drugs produced in Mexicom, as well as the multilateral field generally, within the Organization of United Nations (UN). Anyway the document does not specify even what kind of drugs would be allowed by regulation, or taken from the regime of prohibition.

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