More than a month after its approval in the National Congress, the Constitutional Court (TC) rejected by 5 votes against 3 an appeal filed by opposition parliamentarians to declare unconstitutional the so-called “anti-drug law”, With which The regulations were ready for promulgation and subsequent publication in the Official Gazette.
The initiative was sent out of Congress last 14 of March, but a group of right-wing and far-right legislators went to the TC accusing the unconstitutionality of the norm included in the law that allows the cultivation of cannabis for treatment with the presentation of a prescription issued by a treating doctor.
Finally, the TC dismissed the parliamentarians' appeal and gave the green light to the legal body what are you looking for, among other things, prevent people who grow for medical reasons from being imprisoned.
Although it is undoubtedly an advance in the matter, It still remains to establish some regulations with objective parameters to differentiate consumers from micro-trafficking and trafficking. and avoid the criminalization of non-medicinal users and judicial processes that mostly involve large expenditures in fiscal resources due to the persecution of simple consumers..
The law also punishes those who falsify medical prescriptions in order to cultivate, as well as increases penalties against those who provide drugs to children and creates a new crime against those who supply them to third parties without their consent.
Likewise, hits the drug trafficking business by expanding the confiscation of its assets and profits, even in cases without conviction, along with allocating resources from drug trafficking to strengthen police investigation and prosecution.
further, increases the inspection of the money route with the Financial Analysis Unit that will be able to investigate new types of companies such as car sales, jewelry and horses, among others, to prevent money laundering.
