Myth About Cartels

One question Rob~is it "Legal" to use drugs in Mexico?

You already know the answer to your question. Mexico follows the USA's lead. "Drugs" weren't illegal in Mexico until the USA conditioned financial assistance on Mexico playing ball. Even so, although stupid laws mimicking the USA's were created, Mexico didn't play ball for decades until the USA threatened Mexico with further sanctions, retaliation and retribution in various forms. Mexico didn't have a real problem with "drug" abuse and addiction until relatively recently as huge amounts of popular recreational substances destined for the USA also found their way into Mexican bars and schools. This thanks to the DEA's intervention in Columbia that made Mexico the king of the narcotic trade.

In the absence of legislative progress on the matter and due to the increasing intolerable senseless violence as organized criminals fight over territories and routes, the Mexican Corte Suprema de la Justicia has taken a bold judicial step and claimed that its citizens have a right to ingest recreational intoxicating substances just as they have the right to control their own lives and do with them as they wish as long as they don't harm others. The use of popular recreational substances by itself is by definition a victimless crime. A group of citizens successfully sued to have the right to grow their own pot for their own recreational use, never mind that none of the members of the group smokes pot. The court found in their favor and granted them permission. Even though they are unable to rewrite laws on the books, they gave notice to legislators that they will no longer enforce them and that new laws must be written to take into account their new judicial precedent. Now we only await as more citizens and interest groups bring similar lawsuits before the Corte Suprema. I believe that after 5 such lawsuits successfully make it through the judicial system the Corte Suprema will be able to invalidate current archaic law and establish their precedent as the law of the land.

Narcos and both Mexican and US authorities don't want to change the status quo. I wonder why? All that free unaccounted for money they'll stand to lose. All those regular payoffs they'll no longer receive. Billions of black market profits will be lost.