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  2. Cannabis in Mexico - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Latin American drug legalization - Wikipedia

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    However, the 2006 law does not provide objective means to distinguish between users or traffickers. A disparity exists between the decriminalization of drug use and the increased penalization of selling drugs, punishable with a maximum prison sentence of 5 years for the sale of very minor quantities of drugs.

  4. Crime in Mexico - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Mexico cracks down on drugs and migrants. Will it be enough ...

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    Read more:Drug cartels' turf war in Mexico's Chiapas state sends villagers fleeing to Guatemala. Mexico has been detaining more than 5,000 migrants a day, almost 50% more than during the final ...

  6. Yellen announces new sanctions in Mexico aimed at curbing ...

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    The Biden administration announced new sanctions and indictments against Mexican nationals on Wednesday as it seeks to deepen cooperation with the Mexican government to curb flows of the opioid ...

  7. Tracing Mexican drug traffickers led investigators to a ... - AOL

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    The parallel schemes enriched and empowered Chinese criminal groups at a time when marijuana laws were loosening and the Mexican cartels were flooding the country with fentanyl.

  8. Mexican drug war - Wikipedia

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    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] is an ongoing asymmetric [31] [32] armed conflict between the Mexican government and various drug trafficking syndicates.

  9. Are Mexican drug cartels as powerful as people think? - AOL

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    Oswaldo Zavala is a Mexican academic and writer whose provocatively titled 2022 book — "Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in U.S. and Mexican Culture" — argues for a bold reframing ...