As I recently reported on this blog, last November the Mexican Senate
approved an amended Cannabis Law bill. That bill was sent to the
Lower Chamber for discussion and approval. The Lower Chamber duly
received the bill on November 24 and has already held public
hearings with various stakeholders in the country, which we have
been following closely. It really did seem Congress would do its
part on cannabis legalization.
We were rather disappointed when we learned about the recent
Lower Chamber's decision to defer discussion of the Cannabis
Law to next year and officially ask the Mexican Supreme Court for
an extension of the previous December 15 deadline to implement
legalization. We were even more disappointed when we learned on
December 10 the Supreme Court had granted the extension to April
2021 (the end of the Congress's Spring Debate Session), citing
COVID and "giving Congress due time to exercise its
powers".
