Source: www.minds.com, Thanks to Earth We Are One

Early in November 2015, the Mexican supreme court ruled that individuals should have the right to grow and distribute marijuana for personal preferences.  Nonetheless, this ruling changes the country’s course on drug policy, noting that there was little reason to imprison people for harvesting crops that are being transferred to the US for legal ingestion.

Mexico has been deeply involved in an argument, with the US “War on Drugs.”  “Every country in the world signed up to a treaty that prescribed a prohibitionist and criminalized approach to dealing with drugs that was one-sided,” said John Walsh, a senior associate at the Washington Office on Latin America, human rights group. “That basic response doesn’t work anymore.”

One highly successful way to decrease crime and normalize society is to overthrow laws that are not enforceable.  The war on drug users has been demonstrated highly ineffective and has been challenged in countries such as Brazil, Columbia, Chile and the United States, where there are laws are being approved to allow for the use of marijuana.

The Mexican court did not focus on the economic gain it can receive when harvesting and distributing the crop, but instead it decided that it every individual’s right to engage in any recreational activities that have no negative impacts or harm other people.