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Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, Mexico v. Smith & Wesson: Questions presented; 1. Whether the production and sale of firearms in the United States is the "proximate cause" of alleged injuries to the Mexican government stemming from violence committed by drug cartels in Mexico. 2.
The decision affected the second paragraph of Article 14 of the country's drug control legislation (Law Number 23,737) that punishes the possession of drugs for personal consumption with prison sentences ranging from one month to two years (although education or treatment measures can substitute penalties).
Many Mexican police officials in border towns have been targets of assassination by drug cartels, who have even threatened local law enforcement in the United States. [80] In January 2003, the security consulting company of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was hired by business leaders to come up with a plan to clean up Mexico City ...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, on her first trip to Mexico since taking office in 2021, announced the new sanctions against 15 individuals and two Mexican companies linked to the Beltran ...
The Mexican drug war (also known as the Mexican war on drugs; Spanish: Guerra contra el narcotráfico en México, shortened to and commonly known inside Mexico as the war against the narco; Spanish: Guerra contra el narco) [30], known also as Calderón's war [31] is an ongoing asymmetric [32] [33] armed conflict between the Mexican government ...
Some academics also believe that indigenous Mexicans adopted psychoactive cannabis as the drug Pipiltzintzintli for ritual purposes and divination. [8] By 1898, cannabis use was prevalent in Mexico. [9] The drug was commonly used for recreational purposes and as a folk remedy to treat pain—particularly among military personnel and the lower ...
An alleged Mexican drug kingpin suspected of flooding the United States with deadly fentanyl and who evaded authorities for decades is in US custody after he was apparently lured across the border ...
Drug and precursor laws United Nations INCB – Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 [1] INCB – Convention on Psychotropic Substances, 1971 [2] INCB – United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, 1988 [3] INCB "Green list" – List of Psychotropic Substances under International ...