Alberto Fernandez chose the opening of the 2021 ordinary sessions in Congress to announce the project that provides for the cultivation of cannabis for industrialization for medicinal and industrial use. Not recreational.
But “adult” use, as it is called in the jargon of these “green” laws, would not be far away. Everything indicates that Argentina is following in Uruguay’s footsteps in the management of these plants. Now, industrially.
The first thing to understand is that Argentina’s industrial cannabis project is not spontaneous. It is based on what has been achieved so far in the Ministry of Health of the Nation in terms of its medicinal use. The new project means that two other ministries are joining the cannabis axis: the Ministry of Productive Development and the Ministry of Agroindustry.
“The Ministry (of Health) considers it strategic to expand it into a medical and industrial cannabis bill because Law 27,350 was totally insufficient to safeguard individual freedoms and ensure access, let alone prioritize the value chain of the uses of medical cannabis,” Marcelo Morante, leader of the Medical Cannabis Research Program and a medical expert in Pain Medicine, explained to Clarín.
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