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It also decriminalized possession of drug paraphernalia, making New Mexico the first state to do so. [25] SB 323 passed the House by a 44–20 vote and the Senate 30–8. [ 26 ] It went into effect on July 1, 2019.
This year, Mexico has reported more than 1.2 million apprehensions of migrants — a record for Mexico that even tops the total arrests by the U.S. Border Patrol along the U.S.-Mexico border ...
A wave of conservatism during the 1980s allowed president Ronald Reagan to accelerate the war on drugs, prompting anti-drug campaigns such as the "Just Say No" campaign of first lady Nancy Reagan. Federal penalties for cultivation, possession, or transfer of marijuana were increased by the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 and the Anti ...
U.S. State Department officials knew that Mexican ex-president Felipe Calderón's willingness to work with the United States was unprecedented on issues of security, crime and drugs, so the U.S. Congress passed legislation in late June 2008 to provide Mexico and Central American countries with US$1.6 billion for the Mérida Initiative, a three ...
Mexico’s president took the unusual step Monday of issuing a public appeal to drug cartels not to fight each other following last week's detention of top Mexican drug lord Ismael “El Mayo ...
A federal judge in El Paso recently sentenced the convicted leader of a New Mexico drug trafficking ring with ties to the Sinaloa drug cartel to life in prison, the U.S. Attorney's Office said ...
On October 27, 1970, the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act was signed into law by President Richard Nixon. Known mainly for its drug scheduling provision (contained in Title II, the Controlled Substances Act), the act also included a number of reforms that significantly reduced penalties for certain drug offenses. [15]
In June 2017, President Enrique Peña Nieto signed a bill into law to allow the medical use of cannabis products containing less than one percent THC. [21] The bill passed the Senate by a 98–7 vote in December 2016 and the Lower House of Congress by a 371–19 vote in April 2017.