Latin America’s Biggest Legal Marijuana Farm Is Open For Business

The farming of medical marijuana is loosening in Latin America just as steadily—actually, a bit more so—than here in the US. In Chile, the laws are a bit strange (possession, sale, and transport of recreational marijuana is illegal), but as of 2015, it's legal to cultivate the crop and to sell it in stores as a prescription medication.

Wherever legalization goes, money and development follow, and so last week we saw the official opening of Latin America’s largest medical marijuana farm, a totally legal operation a few hours south of Santiago that hopes to harvest about 1.65 tons of marijuana this spring.

The project comes from the Daya Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the use of cannabis for strictly medical uses. (The members, a significant number of whom come from the entertainment industry in Chile, also provide supplemental alternative therapy, like acupuncture and reiki, a Japanese touch therapy.) Their harvest...

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