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26th May 2023
Chile: The bill allowing home growing of cannabis for medicinal purposes under prescription, signed into law by president Boric on 9th May, was published in the Official Gazette on Tuesday 23rd May.22nd May 2023
- Brazil: The Federal Supreme Court will resume judgement of the decriminalisation of drug possession on 24th May. Three out of 11 judges have already voted to no longer consider the possession of cannabis a crime. The case has been under review by the court since 2011.
10th May 2023
Colombia: The House of Representatives yesterday approved a bill amending the constitution to enable the consumption and production of recreational cannabis. The bill, which has now been through six debates, will have to go through two more in the Senate before 20th July if it is to be passed.
10th May 2023
Chile: A bill allowing home growing of cannabis for medicinal purposes under prescription, approved in March by both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, was signed into law yesterday (9th May) by president Gabriel Boric.
26th April 2023
20th April 2023
Argentina: The Ministry of Health issued a resolution yesterday extending from one year to three the validity of home growers’, patients’ and prescribing doctors’ registration for medical cannabis through the Cannabis Programme Registry (Reprocann).
11th April 2023
Argentina: A regulation further developing Law 27.669, approved in May 2022, to set up a comprehensive regulatory framework for industrial hemp and medical cannabis, has been approved by the Regulatory Agency for the Hemp and Medicinal Cannabis Industry (Ariccame) and the economy minister and will be published in the Official Gazette once the president has approved it, press reports. The regulation will allow licensing of the production, distribution and sale of hemp and hemp extracts, with a maximum allowed THC content of 1%.
3rd April 2023
- Chile: The bill approved by Parliament on 14th March allowing home growing of cannabis for medicinal purposes under a doctor's prescription has been recently challenged before the Constitutional Court by MPs of the opposition coalition, suspending its application until a verdict is issued.
22nd March 2023
- Brazil: Yesterday, 21st March, the Superior Court of Justice published the decision that it falls within the court’s jurisdiction to decide whether hemp can be cultivated for medical, pharmaceutical and industrial purposes. This is in order to avoid different decisions on the same matter. All lawsuits related to hemp cultivation will be suspended, and the court’s decision, which could take at least a year to be made, will be binding.
15th March 2023
14th March 2023
Chile: The Chamber of Deputies yesterday approved a report by an inter-house committee that seeks to allow home growing of cannabis for medicinal purposes provided the patient has a doctor’s prescription. The committee, made up of members of both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, was set up to agree a common position on a bill already in the legislative process.
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