Chilean President Signs Decree Removing Pot from Hard Drug List

Chilean President Signs Decree Removing Pot from Hard Drug List
By Maureen Meehan · Mon Dec 07, 2015

In the latest effort in Chile’s easing up on pot laws, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet signed a decree on Friday removing marijuana from the list of “hard drugs,” giving the country’s Ministry of Health authorization to “permit and control the use of cannabis, extracts and tinctures, for the manufacture of pharmaceutical products,” according to Chilean publication, El Espectador.

The news implies that medical marijuana products can be sold in pharmacies and laboratories by prescription.

When pot was still on the hard drug list, planting, selling and transporting marijuana carried long jail terms. Thousands were arrested as drug traffickers even though they used pot for medical purposes.

Friday’s decree was welcome but not a total surprise especially after regional agricultural authorities recently approved a 6,900-plant pot farm, which is currently growing 20 strains of high-potency seeds.

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