Criminal Justice and Alternatives to Incarceration (ATI) · 4.2 Alternatives to Incarceration

Partially meets the criterion.

Mexico has a national legal basis for imposing administrative sanctions in health matters. The General Health Law establishes infractions, safety measures, and administrative sanctions within the public health system, and the 2009 federal decree on retail drug offences provides normative traceability regarding the differentiation between health and criminal responses to drug-related conduct.

However, the available evidence is mainly normative and does not verify operational application of the administrative-sanctions regime in drug-related cases. Complementary sources only corroborate the legal content and do not establish sanction volumes, frequency of application, enforcing authorities, territorial coverage, institutional monitoring, or outcomes. Therefore, the criterion is partially met: a national legal basis for administrative sanctions exists, but sufficient evidence of effective and verifiable use in practice remains missing.