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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Colombia Takes a Bold Step Away From the U.S. and Legalizes Pot 🌿Colombia Takes a Bold Step Away From the U.S. and Legalizes Pot
Colombia, a country that was once synonymous with illegal drugs, legalized medicinal marijuana on Tuesday. President Juan Manuel Santos signed a decree making its consumption, cultivation, purchase, and sale legal for medicinal and scientific purposes.
Though a provision technically allowing medicinal marijuana had been sneaked into Colombian law in the ’80s, the law got stuck in a legal gray zone where government was never granted the power to regulate and control the sale and distribution of marijuana, and lived in obscurity—few knew it existed and even fewer took advantage of it. Santos said the new decree would change that, and that it was passed to put Colombia at the forefront of medical research and finding cures for diseases, as “Colombia hopes to join a slew of advanced, progressive countries like the U.S., Canada, and the Netherlands …
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