The Environment Commission of the Costa Rican Congress supported the initiative of the President of the Republic, Carlos Alvarado, to eliminate different articles of the bill to legalize medicinal cannabis and industrial hemp.
The proposal passed with 6 votes in favor and one against. This indicates that much of the caucus agreed to recommend in plenary the elimination of articles 5, 25 and 26. According to the arguments of the president, the ministers of Health, Agriculture, and the Costa Rican Institute on Drugs (ICD), these articles are conflicting to the interests or the Power of the State.
The items that would be removed would be:
Article 5: Proposes the free cultivation of hemp, production, industrialization for by-products.
Articles 25 and 26: Patients would be authorized by means of a medical accreditation to the consumption of cannabis of different uses, as well as cultivation for self-consumption.
In favor were the deputies Karine Niño, Paola Valladraes (PLN), Wagner Jiménez, Mario Castillo, Erwen Masís, Myleyde Alvarado (National Restoration). Against, Paola Vega of the Citizen Action Party (PAC) voted.
By accepting this presidential veto by means of a majority vote, the Environment Commission must deliver the report to the plenary so that the corrections can be processed there for final approval.
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