The politician and farmer Juan Carlos Guerrero has campaigned heavily for the legalization of cannabis in Baja California. It's one of several proposals he has for improving the quality of life in Tijuana and across the state.
S2: We tell cross-border stories that connect us. I'm not the one silenced.
S2: So you just heard Juan Carlos Guerrero. He is a truancy one in say , who , like many of us , sees the border region for what it really is , a big land of untapped potential.S3: My dad is American. My mom is Mexican. And that dynamic for me has been has been weird because I always have the right to to cross the border. Even now with the pandemic.
S1: After this event at such a young age. Juan Carlos joined one of the strongest and most influential political parties in Mexico. S1: And while he was up there , he started to learn a lot about growing cannabis. Eventually , he brought all that knowledge back to Tijuana. This is a new season of Port of entry.
S1: And in this first episode , we're introducing you to some people who are working really hard to change the legal status of cannabis in Tijuana and are working also to change the way people think about weed in border communities. S3: My daughter is here and one of my friends , my everything , my family , everything is here in the garden. And yeah , that's basically what one day I was there and the next day I just said goodbye. And I grabbed my stuff and came back. Entonces.
S2: So here's the thing. Let me explain this to you. While growing , selling , consuming cannabis is still technically illegal in Mexico. A Supreme Court ruling a few years ago fully decriminalized it. And then in 2021 , the federal Senate passed a general law to legalize cannabis. But since then , nothing has happened to actually put that law into practice. It is stalled , essentially held up , and many believe because of opposition from national political figures.
S2: And guess what ? Juan Carlos was the first person in Baja , California to get this Amparo. In fact , when the authorities issued it , everyone came out from the back office to check it out. And there was a lot of excitement , like , whoa , this is new. This is so cool. S1: So Juan Carlos knew a lot about the cannabis industry and he was trying to educate people while breaking the stigma of weed. And all of these things combined pushed him back into politics. But this time he joined a different and more liberal political party called Movimiento Ciudadano.S3: So they called me back in November , December , and they told me , you know what , we're looking for citizens. They're politically active. They're doing activism for social causes.
S1: And for sure you have to have integrity and be true to your word to get people to trust you. That's why so many people don't trust politicians because they don't. So during his campaign , Juan Carlos had a very good point to prove. S3: You have to go to to the to the public officer. You have to go to the congressmen. You have to go to the city counselor. You have to go to the mayor or the governor or the president. So knowing that all the ideas that have to benefit society to to do a collective good , it's through public office. So that's why I was candidate this time and I'm going to keep pursuing all this.
S2: Look , I'm going to be totally honest with you. I have seen politicians at campaign events like this before , and when they approach me to talk about their proposals , I don't pay much attention to what they're saying or even take the energy to remember their names. But see , you'll be an apostle. But I. You'll be useful as planters the weed. I would totally remember the name of this politician having two legal plants of weed.
S1: Yeah , this weed taboo that has been circulating for years , according to Juan Carlos , is pure hypocrisy.S3: My main line right now throughout my campaign is stop being a hypocrite. Don't be a hypocrite. And this has been around for a while in fortunes that have been made through cannabis and then saying that that doesn't exist. It's basically hypocrisy.
S2: Think about this. We are living in the busiest border region in the world. Two cities always compared and contrasting. One is good , one is bad. One is rich. One is poor. S3: I'm going to do everything that's on my hands to make it legal. It's not just me doing it. There's a lot of activists nationwide like pushing this. So I'm pretty sure that the collective effort is going to make this happen by the end of next year. It's going to be something already , like something in the industry already going on. Good things are happening in the cannabis industry.
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