Mexican doctor and marijuana activist Jorge Garza Gómez on a high after Supreme Court ruling
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Along with three other activists, Dr. Jorge Garza Gómez formed a small club called the Mexican Society for Responsible and Tolerant Personal Use (SMART, in Spanish). They began their campaign in 2013, seeking permission to grow plants for recreational use.
The argument they used in the Supreme Court battle was based on human rights and freedom of choice. And it was an argument that obviously convinced the Supreme Court - on Wednesday, it voted 4-1 that prohibiting people from growing the drug for consumption was unconstitutional.
Garza Gómez was more pragmatic, seeing the vote as "historic" and looking to the future.
"Congress in this country can no longer ignore that this is happening and that it doesn't have to do anything," he told me after the vote. "Congress will have to address the problem because you can't have laws that are unconstitutional and at the same time not do anything about it."
The ruling though does not mean that marijuana is now legal. It simply means that the four plaintiffs who brought the case are able to grow and smoke their own marijuana.
In order for any law to be changed, the Supreme Court would first have to vote in favour four more times on a similar case. But experts see this as the first step in what could lead to the legalisation of the drug.
Anyone who wants to use the same criteria to ask for the same rights now has a precedent. Garza Gómez also foresees possible class action lawsuits, which would bring thousands of people to demand the same rights.
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