A vote to pass a bill to legalize cannabis nationwide in Mexico was delayed due to minor “mistakes” in the legislation, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday.
During a press briefing, the president was asked about the postponement in the Chamber of Deputies, which was initially expected to take up the Senate-passed reform bill last week. Congress was mandated by the Supreme Court to end prohibition by December 15, but leaders in the chamber requested and were granted a request to extend that deadline.
That was the fourth time the court approved an extension since declaring the prohibition of cannabis possession and cultivation unconstitutional in 2018. Now legislators have until the end of April 2021 to enact the policy change.
Lopez Obrador said “there was no time to conduct a review” in the legislature prior to the last deadline, but he noted that issues that need to be resolved are “matters of form” and “not of substance.”
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