Mexican Senate Will Vote On Marijuana End Of OctoberPOLITICSMexican Senate Will Vote On Marijuana Legalization Bill By End Of October, Majority Leader SaysPublished. Oct 14, 2020By Kyle Jaeger The Mexican Senate will likely vote on a bill to legalize marijuana within the next two weeks, the chambers majority leader recently said. Activists have been eagerly awaiting action on the reform legislation since the Supreme Court deemed personal possession and cultivation of cannabis unconstitutional in 2018though some are pushing for a greater emphasis on social equity before lawmakers pass the pending bill in its current form. The high court in April granted a second deadline extension to give legislators additional time to enact the policy change amid the coronavirus pandemic, pushing it to December 15. That said, Ricardo Monreal, the ruling MORENA partys leader in the Senate, said the chamber will advance the bill before the end of October. Its not clear if the legislation will go through the committee process or straight to the floor given that tight timeline. Zara Snapp, a legalization activist with the Instituto RIA and the coalition #RegulacionPorLaPaz, told Marijuana Moment that advocates have similarly heard from senators that the plan is to quickly pass the proposal and theyre hopeful thats the case. If the Senate passes the legal cannabis bill it will still have to go before the other house of the nations Congress, the Chamber of Deputies. President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador said in August that marijuana reform legislation will advance in the new session. The bill was approved by several committees earlier this year, but the COVID-19 outbreak derailed negotiations. The civil rights group Mxico Unido outlined its concerns about the current proposal in a Twitter thread on Tuesday, contending that as drafted it would allow select companies to monopolize the industry.