Legalization of marijuana 2024 update the globe

Marijuana is legal in several countries, including Canada, Germany, Mexico, South Africa and Thailand.

Mexico has decriminalized weed but it is not legal. 95% of the time you'll be fine paying off cops but it's not actually legal.

In 2018, the Supreme Court of Mexico declared that the prohibition of cannabis was unconstitutional, as it interfered with some constitutionally guaranteed human rights. A side effect of this ruling was that the Congress of Mexico was required to enact laws legalizing the use of cannabis within 90 days of that 2018 ruling. The Congress of Mexico failed to do that, and they have been given extensions ever since.

There are many more historical details, but the upshot is that the Supreme Court became frustrated with Congress' lack of action, and issued that decriminalization edict in 2021. Technically, it is no longer a criminal act to possess up to 5 grams of marijuana.

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No Mexican laws exist that legalize the possession or use of marijuana for recreational purposes. In some areas in Mexico, cannabis can be purchased for medical purposes, but you need a doctor's prescription to do this.

And while marijuana has been decriminalized, many jurisdictions in Mexico don't recognize that decriminalization and continue to arrest and punish people who are caught with marijuana. And entering Mexico from a foreign country with any amount of cannabis is illegal and punishable everywhere in Mexico.

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Add in rampant reports of police extortion—officers taking a payoff to let people go with their weed—and tourists visiting Mexico would be wise to avoid buying or consuming recreational marijuana until returning to a destination in the U.S. where it is legal.