{"id":10493,"date":"2021-03-23T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/?p=10493"},"modified":"2021-03-21T22:04:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T02:04:57","slug":"legalizing-marijuana-in-mexico-creates-a-power-triangle-involving-transnational-drug-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2021\/03\/23\/legalizing-marijuana-in-mexico-creates-a-power-triangle-involving-transnational-drug-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Legalizing Marijuana in Mexico Creates a Power Triangle Involving Transnational Drug Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Patrick T Condon
\n<\/b>Staff Writer<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Mexico is positioned to become the world\u2019s largest legal marijuana market in the world. On March 11, 2020, the lower house of Mexico\u2019s Congress passed a bill legalizing recreational marijuana. This bill would \u201clet users with a permit carry up to 28g and grow as many as eight plants at home for personal use,\u201d according to <\/span>BBC News<\/span><\/a>. Currently, it is illegal to carry more than five grams in Mexico. This promising bill does not come without warning though, as it fails to address the violent history of Mexico\u2019s cartel-led market. While the bill serves to promote the freedom of recreational marijuana usage to Mexico\u2019s population of 127 million, its implications affect cartels, local growers, and transnational drug companies across the region. Additionally, the bill\u2019s purpose is to reduce violence in Mexico and increase the government\u2019s ability to protect its people, but what does this really mean for the future of the drug trade?<\/span><\/p>\n

Mexico is one of the few countries in the Western Hemisphere to consider legalizing recreational marijuana. If Congress passes this bill, it will join the small list of countries to legalize recreational marijuana, after Uruguay and Canada, reports the <\/span>BBC<\/span><\/a>. According to the <\/span>New York Times<\/span><\/a>, Mexico would be the world\u2019s largest cannabis market, propelling its influence over the growing drug trade even further. While many opponents say this may increase cartel power, ruling party lawmaker Simey Olvera highlights the bill\u2019s ability to dispel the false narrative that marijuana is dangerous to public health. This narrative marks an important distinction between the dangers of cartel-involvement and state behavior in the drug trade. While state control of the drug trade through policing is marketed as safer than the notoriously cruel behavior of cartels to control trade, the duplicitous nature of controlling the trade remains.<\/span><\/p>\n

This bill comes at a complicated time in Mexico\u2019s history of the cannabis trade, which stems back 100 years to the Mexican Revolution. Originating from a 1920 law banning marijuana, the drug which is largely grown by local indigenous farmers received the negative perception that it \u201ccould degenerate the race\u201d and lead to \u201chomicidal mania,\u201d permanently marring the safe, recreational practice by many indigenous people, explains <\/span>The Nation<\/span><\/a>. This negative stigma was further amplified by the prejudicial foreign policy of former U.S. President Richard Nixon, who fueled the drug war between cartels through U.S. law enforcement agents. Through aid and policy promotion, the U.S. systematically fought cartel influence in the Mexican states, cementing U.S. involvement in Mexican drug policy \u2013 this continues today through transnational drug companies, suggests the <\/span>Associated Press<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Until now, the two main actors in the drug trade were influential cartels and government agencies. While the cartels retained domestic influence by controlling the production of cannabis through violent threats, U.S. agents aided the police tasked with bringing down the cartels. However, this led to hundreds of thousands of arrests of loosely-involved growers and couriers, resulting in the \u201cpublic trust in police [dropping] quite low,\u201d <\/span>The Washington Post<\/span><\/a> reports. As the Mexican government found legal ways of controlling the drug trade, it took in funds from transnational drug companies, further alienating the Mexican people. Drug companies from the U.S. and Canada are now \u201cmaking investment decisions\u201d on policies affecting the legal selling of the drug and watching this bill closely \u201cwith interest,\u201d according to <\/span>Al Jazeera<\/span><\/a>. Now, as transnational drug companies move in to influence policy implementation, a frighteningly influential power triangle is forming, undermining the entire purpose of this bill and the 127 million Mexicans to be affected.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The question of legal recreational usage remains at the core of this bill. While it seeks to legalize marijuana, it that does not guarantee equal access and treatment for affected people. According to the <\/span>Associated Press<\/span><\/a>, the bill \u201cwould permit recreational use of marijuana, but establish a system of licenses required for the entire chain of production, distribution, transformation, and sales.\u201d These systems, in effect, would primarily benefit the influential people at the top of the system who are connected to government agencies and transnational drug companies. This proposed avenue further manipulates industry access to favor those connected to transnational companies, including the U.S. government, with oversight and control of the largest cannabis market in the world. If the bill were to have the proposed impact, it must allow the formation of an agency that provides equitable access to all Mexicans. While this is not likely to bring down any of the three major powers in the world\u2019s largest drug trade, it may provide a more transparent approach to the legalization of marijuana and its subsequent trade.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mexico is positioned to become the world\u2019s largest legal marijuana market in the world. On March 11, 2020, the lower house of Mexico\u2019s Congress passed a bill legalizing recreational marijuana. This bill would \u201clet users with a permit carry up to 28g and grow as many as eight plants at home for personal use,\u201d according to BBC News. Currently, it is illegal to carry more than five grams in Mexico. This promising bill does not come without warning though, as it fails to address the violent history of Mexico\u2019s cartel-led market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4899,"featured_media":10494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2153,2104,7,384],"tags":[442,615,867,1395,2171],"class_list":["post-10493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-march-2021","category-2104","category-opinion","category-americas","tag-u-s","tag-canada","tag-trade","tag-cannabis","tag-drug"],"yoast_head":"\nLegalizing Marijuana in Mexico Creates a Power Triangle Involving Transnational Drug Companies - The Diplomatic Envoy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2021\/03\/23\/legalizing-marijuana-in-mexico-creates-a-power-triangle-involving-transnational-drug-companies\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Legalizing Marijuana in Mexico Creates a Power Triangle Involving Transnational Drug Companies - The Diplomatic Envoy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mexico is positioned to become the world\u2019s largest legal marijuana market in the world. 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