Mexican Senator Decorates Desk With Marijuana Plant As Legalization Bill Is Poised To Advance

A Mexican senator added a unique decoration to her desk on Monday: a marijuana plant. To express her support for legislation to legalize cannabis just ahead of the start of a new session on Tuesday, Sen. Jesusa Rodríguez of the ruling Morena party, displayed the plant on her desk before the chamber voted to elect members of a regulatory board. Tema prioritario en el Senado para este periodo. pic.twitter.com/zvIEX35lSa — Jesusa Rodríguez (@jesusardgz) August 31, 2020 “Priority issue in the Senate for this period,” Rodríguez said in a tweet, referring to cannabis reform. Sen. Ricardo Monreal, the Morena coordinator in the body, agreed. “What I do want to tell you is that she says that the legislation on cannabis is a priority and I say to her that yes, it is one of the group’s priorities,” he said. Rodríguez’s stunt wasn’t the first time marijuana entered the Congress in Mexico. A lawmaker gave a key member of the president’s cabinet a joint while speaking on the floor of the Chamber of Deputies last year. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador recently said that marijuana reform legislation will advance in the new session. A legalization bill was approved by several committees earlier this year, but the reform effort has been stalled due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Supreme Court—which deemed the country’s prohibition on personal possession and cultivation unconstitutional in 2018—is currently giving lawmakers until December 15 to enact the policy change. Rodríguez has made clear in other unconventional ways that she’s…

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