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Mexico moves to legalise cannabis use — it can de-escalate drug war According to a 2016 study, Mexican cartels made up to $2 trillion from cannabis sales in the US – between 15% and 26% of their total income. Luis Gomez Romero 3 April, 2021 3:00 pm IST Text Size: A+ If that happens, Mexico will join Uruguay and Canada in allowing people to use cannabis recreationally, albeit in more limited fashion. Mexico’s bill would not outright legalize cannabis; it would raise the country’s existing threshold of nonpunishable personal possession fro...

Marijuana is displayed in glass canisters in glass cases around High Q in the Snowmass Village Mall. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times) The three-county region of Eagle, Garfield and Pitkin encompasses 5,621 square miles, has a combined population of 133,000 residents, and is home to dozens of marijuana shops. Those stores also combined for more than $66 million of Colorado’s record-breaking $2.2 billion in retail sales of marijuana in 2020, according to Colorado Department Revenue data. Consumers of retail marijuana in Colorado are hit with a trio of taxes at the point of sale — there’s ...

Giveaway dates: Jan 11 - Feb 05, 2021 Countries available: U.S. I’m a journalist, writer and TV producer based in Mexico City. I’ve been covering Latin America since 2001 for news media including Time Magazine, CNN, The Associated Press, Global Post, The Houston Chronicle, PBS NewsHour, Al Jazeera English, France 24, CBC, The Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Times, Gatopardo, The San Francisco Chronicle and many others. El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgenc I’m a journalist, writer and TV producer based in Mexico City. I’ve been covering L...

Mexico City will take 'extraordinary measures' to stop surge in Covid-19 deaths By Natalie Gallón and Zamira Rahim, CNN Updated 6:37 PM ET, Fri December 18, 2020 Funeral home employees receive the body of person who died of Covid-19 from a hospital in Mexico City on November 16, 2020. (CNN)Mexico City will impose "extraordinary measures" on residents to contain a surge in Covid-19 cases and deaths, Mexican Deputy Health Minister Dr. Hugo Lopez-Gatell said during a news conference on Friday. Its neighboring state, the state of Mexico, will also impose the measures, which include the suspens...

A negligent homicide charge in puerto rico. he's due back in court next week. david? >> victor oquendo with us tonight. thank you, victor. and we turn now to an abc news investigation tonight. we have been reporting here on the increasing violence south of the border in mexico. several americans, members of that mormon family, killed. but tonight, another troubling portrait here. families in mexico, parents, mothers, looking for their missing children, but getting no help. abc's dan harris and what he found. >> reporter: mexico is at war. violence has reached record levels this year. inside ...