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Collectives predict that Mexico will not regulate cannabis until the US does so at the federal level
Different pro-cannabis groups predicted that Mexico will not regulate its consumption or production until the United States does so at the federal level, during the presentation of the Cannabis Encounter that will take place in the Mexican capital on April 27 and 28.
“As long as there is no federal regulation in the United States, we believe that federal regulation will not be allowed in Mexico,” said Julio Zenil, the director of the event, which brings together the leader of the international cannabis industry.
Zenil explained that, in Mexico, “the steps that have been taken” in this area at the federal level, which places the country in a “more advanced” position than US legislation, which depends on each state.
“There are rumors that the industry will not be regulated in the United States, they will not declassify cannabis, until the pharmaceutical industry is not in control,” he added, so he warned of the presence of “interests that go a little beyond” Mexico’s legislative capacities.
In 2021, the Supreme Court of Justice declared the ban on recreational marijuana consumption in the country unconstitutional, although the Government of the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and his party in Congress have refused to regulate it.
While Congress has approved since 2017, in the six-year term of Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018), the use of marijuana for health purposes, a regulation that depends on the Federal Commission for Protection against Health Risks.
Lawyer Manolo Castro, who will give a thematic talk at the Cannabis Encounter, reiterated the implications of these “issues of supranational interests” and removed the possibility of regulating the use of marijuana and its derivatives in the short term.
“I don’t think it’s going to happen either in these months or in the next three years,” he said, especially because of the electoral period that Mexico is currently experiencing. Even so, both he and Zenil recognized the birth of “different models of self-regulation” among citizens, which could be a “source of law.”
“If the Government puts its hands in taxes and all this, I don’t think it will end well for anyone,” said the artist Muelas de Gallo because, in his opinion, it would mean an increase in the price of the product, which would become a “privilege” for those who can afford it.
The Cannabis Event, which reaches its sixth edition and is organized by the magazine Cáñamo, offers the public conferences on both the recreational and therapeutic use of marijuana and its derivatives, as well as recreational activities and competitions.
“The backbone (…), sharing information so that people have tools for debate and decision,” Zenil said.
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China shows at the UN its “condemnation” of Israel for the “violation of Iran’s sovereignty”
The Chinese ambassador to the United Nations, Fu Cong, showed the “condemnation” of his country against the “violation of the sovereignty, security and territorial integrity of Iran” after the air attack launched by Israel against multiple targets in that country, the official newspaper Diario del Pueblo reports this Saturday.
That media echoes Fu’s speech to the UN Security Council on Friday, in which he demanded that Israel “immediately stop all its military actions.”
“China (…) opposes the expansion of conflicts, and is deeply concerned about the serious consequences that may arise from Israel’s actions. The intensification of regional tensions does not interest any of the parties involved,” said the Chinese emissary.
Beijing called on Tel Aviv and Tehran to “resolve their disputes through political and diplomatic means, and maintain peace and stability at the regional level jointly.”
In Fu’s view, the Israeli attack will have a “negative impact” on the negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program: “China has always been committed to the peaceful resolution of the Iranian nuclear issue through dialogue and consultations, and opposes the use of force, illegal unilateral sanctions and armed attacks on peaceful nuclear facilities.”
This Friday, China had already expressed its willingness to “play a constructive role” to curb the escalation of tensions and facilitate conciliation, in line with its traditional position of active neutrality in the region’s conflicts.
The Israeli attack, which according to Tehran caused dozens of deaths, including senior military commanders and at least six nuclear scientists, targeted key facilities such as the uranium enrichment plant in Natanz. Numerous civilian casualties were also reported.
Israel justified the offensive by claiming that the Iranian regime is secretly developing a program to manufacture nuclear weapons.
For his part, Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, promised a “severe response” and assured that the attack would reveal the “evil nature” of Israel.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres also expressed concern about the bombing, at a time when Iran and the US The United States is holding talks about the Iranian nuclear program.
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Donald Trump’s government pauses its program of indiscriminate raides against migrants
The government of US President Donald Trump has decided to pause its campaign of discretionary roundings against migrants in certain areas due to its apparent concern about the growing unpopularity of these methods, according to The New York Times newspaper on Friday.
According to an email to which the newspaper has had access and the confirmation of US officials, the Executive has ordered the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) to pause the beatings that affect the agricultural industry and the hospitality industry.
The spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, Tricia McLaughlin, confirmed in a statement that “the president’s instructions” will be obeyed and the portfolio will also continue to “work to get the worst illegal foreign criminals out of the streets of the United States.”
The decision points out that this campaign of discretionary arrests to try to deport large-scale immigrants is harming industries and electoral constituencies whose support Trump wants to retain for next year’s legislative elections.
The new instructions were transmitted to ICE in an email sent last Thursday asking that “all investigations/law enforcement operations be suspended in work centers in the agricultural sector (including aquaculture and meat packing plants), restaurants and hotels.”
These new guidelines come in turn after more than a week of intense protests in Los Angeles against this immigration policy and that Trump himself admitted that the raids seem to be affecting the agricultural sector, which in states like California, where beatings have intensified, depend almost exclusively on immigrant labor.
Since his return to the White House in January, Trump has implemented an aggressive policy of hard hand against immigration and as a sample of his Cabinet officials recently held a meeting with the ICE leadership to order them to carry out 3,000 arrests a day, a mandate that seems to be behind the intensification of the raids.
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Trump says he knew “everything” about the attack on Iran and assures that the dialogue remains open
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that Washington “known everything” about the Israeli attack on Iran and that the dialogue on Tehran’s nuclear program “is not dead.”
“We knew everything and I tried to avoid Iran all this humiliation and death. I tried hard to avoid it because I would have loved to see an agreement,” Trump said in an interview with Reuters.
The US president insisted on what he wrote today about the attack on social networks, where he said he gave an ultimatum of 60 days to Tehran to reach an agreement.
“We knew practically everything. We knew enough to give Iran 60 days to reach an agreement and today it is already 61 days,” he explained in the interview, in which he said he did not know what the current situation of the Iranian nuclear program is after the attack launched by Israel, which also ended the lives of key military leaders of the Persian country.
Regarding the dialogue between the US and Iran about the nuclear program of the ayatollahs, Trump assured that “he is not dead”, that “an agreement is still possible” and also recalled that on Sunday a sixth round of dialogue is scheduled in Muscat (Oman) that they consider is now in the air.
“We have a meeting with them on Sunday. Now, I’m not sure if that meeting will take place, but we have a meeting with them on Sunday,” he said.
The United States and Iran have held five rounds of talks on the Iranian nuclear program since April, with Washington demanding that Tehran discard its capabilities both to manufacture an atomic bomb and to enrich uranium, something that the ayatollahs considered unacceptable.
Both Israel and Trump himself had warned of possible preventive attacks on the Persian country due to this refusal by Iran.
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