'Marijuana Website' Launched in Mexico to Promote Healthy Debate on Weed Issues

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Despite critics' effort to stop the legalization of marijuana in Mexico, the Mexican government recently launched a "marijuana website." The purpose of the website is to facilitate the incoming debate on marijuana use in the country on Jan. 26.

The debate is said to clear the issue about marijuana's involvement in everyone's health and prevention. The event will be held in the Mexican city resort of Cancun.

There are already 15 foreign and Mexican participants who committed themselves to join the forum, according to a report by Latin Fox News.

The scheduled debate on Jan. 26 will be followed by another forum on Feb. 23 with the discussion about human rights and ethics. There will also be another debate on March 8, in which they will talk about the economy and regulatory aspects. The fourth debate will be held on March 22, during this time the participants will address the issues on public safety.

The last schedule of the series of debates will be held in Mexico City on April 5. In the final forum, they will look into all the topics from the previous scheduled debates.

The debate was organized in the request of Mexico's president Enrique Peña Nieto after the country's Supreme Court said that it is unconstitutional to ban Mexicans from using and growing marijuana for recreational purposes. The Mexico's General Health Law prohibits anybody from using marijuana for any purpose other than medicinal.

The president on his part is against the legalization of marijuana.

Meanwhile, the "marijuana website" will provide information about marijuana usage. It will also provide links to the other countries stand on marijuana including the law of three states in the U.S. There will also be research results and articles about public health, marijuana consumption, public safety, medical benefit of marijuana, prison system, human rights and information about the development of the economy in the country.

Roberto Campa, the country's human rights secretary, said that all information will be public, which also includes the current state of marijuana addiction in Mexico as well as the risk factor of the drug.

According to a report by Yahoo! News, there are many people in Mexico who support the legalization of marijuana. They stated that legalizing the drug would affect drug cartels in South America as they get big revenues out of the drug. It will also reduce the number of drug-related attacks in the country, which has been a major problem in some Mexican cities.