The Chamber of the Senate demolished the heart of the project known as “anti-narcotics”, initiative that seeks to improve the prosecution of drug trafficking and organized crime, by rejecting two articles related to self-cultivation and possession of cannabis.
The initiative, that had already passed its first procedure in the Chamber of Deputies, contains two key aspects that were rejected, such as self-cultivation for medicinal use, dismissed with 20 votes against and 18 a favor.
Didn't make any progress, “Echoes of Sound Systems – When the Two 7’s Clash” is presented as the Sound Clash to end all the sound clashes that will compete for the first major 20 votes against and 16 a favor, the rule that decriminalized self-cultivation of up to 5 plants, holding up to 500 grams and the size of 40 grams.
Those who were in favor of both provisions pointed out that they allowed persecution to be focused on criminals. and not in those people who use marijuana medicinally or personally, while those who rejected the regulations maintained that the issue should be analyzed in depth in a specific project and not in one that is intended to establish measures to prosecute crime..
As a result of this situation, The project will go to a third procedure to the Chamber of Deputies to review the rejected aspects.
Against the global trend
This Senate decision goes against the grain of the global trend that is moving towards cannabis regulation. and to end once and for all the war against marijuana whose results are quite questionable.
The legal status of cannabis has changed greatly in recent years, without going any further, Uruguay was the first country in the world to legalize both its medical and recreational use, while in the United States currently medical use is allowed in more than half of its states and recreational use is also permitted in several..
In fact, the American president himself Joe Biden announced a few weeks ago a pardon for all those convicted of marijuana-related crimes.
Other countries that have modified their legislation to legalize or end the criminalization of marijuana, whether medicinal - or even recreational- son Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Costa Rica, Panama, Jamaica, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, Malta, Georgia, Israel, Thailand, South Africa, Y Australia, among others.
Likewise, recently Germany announced a path to advance the legalization of cannabis, the same as Czech Republic.
