🔊♿Colombia will allow cultivating up to 20 unlicensed marijuana plants♿🔥

weedlion (31)in #cannabis • 7 years ago (edited)

The Colombians have managed to take into account the needs of self-cultivators and cannabis users, and the self-cultivation standard will allow them to plant up to 20 marijuana plants without any license or registration.

Following this line, the plural consumption of self-cultivators has been taken into account, and that is why consumers who grow plants exclusively for their own consumption can obtain a maximum of 10 grams of cannabis per day, an achievement that is close to what established in the bases of Responsible Regulation.

Many voices have risen in the social networks after knowing the news, giving the congratulations by the Decree Law approved last Monday, and asking that Colombia be taken as an example for the regulation of cannabis self-cultivation in Spain, where until now, it continues being illegal as much its cultivation as its recreational and therapeutic consumption.

Until now, Colombia is the country that has had the best regard for cannabis self-cultivators, establishing a foundation that clearly favors other corporations, and giving wings and freedom to their growers so they can plant for self-consumption without having to register for any registration nor request any license.

The Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice acquitted a man sentenced to 64 months in prison for the crime of trafficking, manufacturing and possession of narcotics after being captured with "a part of a freshly cut plant" of marijuana that weighed 124, 1 grams in January 2013.

The high court made a strong appeal for attention to the terms and concepts that should be taken into account against the issue of narcotics. Solving a cassation appeal indicates that if a person is caught with 20 freshly cut marijuana plants he is not committing a punishable conduct.

At this point, article 2 of Law 30 of 1986 (National Statute of Narcotics) was taken into account in relation to the terms referring to the subject of a plantation, drug, narcotic and dependence. The case in question indicates that the accused did not commit a crime.

"If it is taken into account that article 375 of the Penal Code only penalizes to cultivate, finance or conserve more than 20 plants from which drug can be produced that produces dependence, it is concluded without question that the Court directly violated article 376 of the Penal Code misapplication, "the ruling says.

This indicates that the conduct of conserving a marijuana plant or a part of it, which does not structure the crime of 'conservation or financing of plantations' described in article 375 of the Penal Code, was attributed to "trafficking in narcotic drugs." For the Court it is necessary to take into account several points in this type of cases.

For the Court, the crime of cultivating, financing or conserving more than 20 plants can not be ignored. The ruling orders the immediate release of the accused.