The Colombia Senate on Tuesday narrowly rejected a invoice to permit authorized hashish gross sales to adults, Reuters experiences. The measure failed regardless of having a majority of help within the chamber — 47 voted in favor and 43 opposed however, as a constitutional modification, the invoice wanted help from 54 senators, leaving it simply seven votes brief.
Regardless of the vote, Inside Minister Luis Fernando Velasco indicated on Twitter that the administration of President Gustavo Petro would “insist on this subject.”
In an interview with La Prensa Latina, Liberal Celebration Senator Juan Carlos Losada mentioned he doesn’t take into account the vote as a “defeat.”
“We have now taken an enormous step, 4 years of placing such a controversial subject on the prime of the general public agenda, of the general public debate. … Persevering with to depart a substance that’s authorized within the palms of the drug traffickers and drug sellers is detrimental to the kids of Colombia and detrimental to the nation’s democracy.” — Losada to La Prensa Latina
The laws included restrictions on the use and sale of hashish and its derived merchandise in faculties and universities, and restricted public consumption. Colombia at the moment permits some hashish merchandise for medical use, together with oils and lotions. Reforms handed within the Eighties and Nineties enable for private hashish use and cultivation as much as 20 vegetation.
Just one South American nation, Uruguay, permits hashish gross sales to adults.
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