COLOMBIA TO LEGALIZE CANNABIS MEDICAL USE
Colombia joined the group of Latin American countries to legalize the use of cannabis (marijuana) for medical and scientific purposes, after President Juan Manuel Santos signed on December 22 a decree regulating the cultivation, processing, import and export of cannabis to those objectives.
With this measure, the Colombian government finally seeks to regulate these activities, in addition to owning and controlling seed growing areas, provided medical and scientific purposes, which was allowed for decades but had no regulation. What it has not legalized is cannabis use on public roads and marketing.
Carlos Arturo Carvajal, former official for Colombia Program of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, said that this step is a breakthrough because it allows medical marijuana in applying curative and palliative treatment of chronic diseases and associated with chemotherapy, among other diseases.
However, it believes that this decree leaves two major gaps. On the one hand,...
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