—James Fowkes, University of Münster Faculty of Law [Editor’s note: This is one of our biweekly I-CONnect columns. Columns, while scholarly in accordance with the tone of the blog and about the same length as a normal blog post, are a bit more “op-ed” in nature than standard posts. For more information about our four

The (un)Certain Path Towards the Legalization of Marijuana in Mexico
–Mariana Velasco Rivera, LL.M. ’15 and J.S.D. Candidate, Yale Law School On Wednesday, November 4, the First Chamber of the Mexican Supreme Court issued what has been described as an irreversible step towards the legalization of the recreational use of marijuana. In an individual constitutional complaint (Juicio de Amparo), the First Chamber found in favor