Mexican court rules to allow recreational cocaine use

A Mexican judge has granted two people’s requests to be allowed to use cocaine recreationally, the organization behind the cases said Tuesday, calling it a “historic step”—though it must first be reviewed by a higher court.

The rulings, the first of their kind in Mexico, would allow the two petitioners to “possess, transport and use cocaine,” but not to sell it, according to Mexico United Against Crime, an organization devoted to ending the Latin American country’s “war on drugs.”

The Mexico City court ordered the national health regulator, COFEPRIS, to authorize the petitioners’ cocaine use in personal, recreational doses, the organization said.

However, a COFEPRIS official told AFP the regulator has moved to block the court order, which was delivered in May, arguing that issuing such authorization would be outside its legal remit.

 

Mexican court rules to allow recreational cocaine use

A Mexican judge has granted two peoples requests to be allowed to use cocaine recreationally, the organization behind the cases said Tuesday, calling it a historic stepthough it must first be reviewed by a higher court. The rulings, the first of their kind in Mexico, would allow the two petitioners to possess, transport and use cocaine, but not to sell it, according to Mexico United Against Crime, an organization devoted to ending the Latin American countrys war on drugs. The Mexico City court ordered the national health regulator, COFEPRIS, to authorize the petitioners cocaine use in personal, recreational doses, the organization said. However, a COFEPRIS official told AFP the regulator has moved to block the court order, which was delivered in May, arguing that issuing such authorization would be outside its legal remit.