 Growing, possession, and smoking the drug deemed acceptable in decision that applies only to plaintiffs and does not approve sale of the substance 
 
 Mexico’s supreme court has ruled that sections of the country’s health law are invalid, legalizing the growing, possession and use of marijuana for recreational purposes. The first bench of the supreme court granted an injunction allowing four members of the Mexican Society for Responsible and Tolerant Self-Consumption (Smart) to grow, transport and smoke marijuana. A similar process led to the court’s recent ruling that Mexican laws prohibiting same-sex marriage are unconstitutional. Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto has been firmly against any change to drug policy so the battle to legalise marijuana here has only just begun. He deemed the ruling “unnecessary” since Mexico already allows the possession of five grams of marijuana or less.
– A landmark Supreme Court ruling in Mexico has legalized recreational marijuana for four people, a decision that could open the door to legal pot for another 122 million Mexicans. The court's 4-1 decision found that banning marijuana violated the constitutional right "to the free development of personality" of the four plaintiffs from a group called the Mexican Society for Responsible and Tolerant Consumption, the Guardian reports. The four, including prominent businessman Armando Santacruz, will now be allowed to grow marijuana and smoke it, reports the BBC. For pot to become legal for all Mexicans, the court will have to rule the same way in five similar cases, the Guardian notes. Pot smoking isn't as widespread in Mexico as it is in the US, and the government is firmly opposed to legalization, but advocates say it makes little sense for Mexicans to be locked up or killed in cartel violence over a substance that's gradually being legalized north of the border, reports the New York Times. "We are killing ourselves to stop the production of something that is heading to the US, where it’s legal," Santacruz tells the Times, adding that bad regulation "is better than whatever regulation El Chapo and the narcos can provide." (On Tuesday, Ohio voters rejected a legalization measure that would have established a "marijuana monopoly.")