Colombia plans to legalize the use of cannabis for medical and scientific purposes

The Colombian government plans to legalize the cultivation and trafficking of cannabis for medical and research purposes, such a statement made the officials of the country.

The change will be adopted by decree of the executive branch, Juan Manuel Santos will sign the relevant law regulating all aspects: from manufacturers to license exports of psychoactive hemp, said Justice Minister Yoshida City Reyes.

The new policy puts Colombia on a par with Mexico and Chile, experimenting with the legislation in the sphere of drug trafficking, including the possibility of the decriminalization of cannabis.

Senator Manuel Galan Juan, which last year introduced a bill, echoing the content of the government decision, said that many people, such as the 400,000 Colombians who suffer from epilepsy and other diseases that may benefit from the emergence of the legal framework, which is contained in decree. Through a series of decisions of the Constitutional Court to guarantee the free development of personality, Colombians for two decades allowed to possess small quantities of any psychoactive substances for personal use.

Comment of the Association "Ukrainian industrial hemp"

This kind of facts about the different possibilities of legalization of cannabis use in the world is extremely interesting and instructive to Ukrainian growers. One of the issues addressed at 11/25/2015 Verkhovna Rada Committee on Health will draft Law of Ukraine "On Amendments to the Law of Ukraine" On narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors ". It was in this legal act, including the initiative of the Association of Ukrainian profile growers will be provided for the use of cannabis for medical and scientific purposes.