'Smoke with freedom' - Mexicans get high in marijuana garden outside Senate


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  • Friday, 25 Sep 2020

Marijuana users smoke inside a protest cannabis garden next to Mexico's Senate building during a call for legalization, using the garden as a tolerant and safe place to smoke in Mexico City, Mexico September 24, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A cannabis 'garden' sprouting next to Mexico's Senate building has become a smoker's paradise, with Mexican stoners lighting up joints without fear of arrest.

The cannabis seeds sowed in a plaza by Mexico's Senate by pro-marijuana activists in February have mushroomed into strikingly large plants, and become symbolic of a drive to legalize marijuana in a nation riven by drugs-related violence.

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