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Colombia prohibits growing and trading marihuana

Decree 923 prohibited the cultivation of and trade in marihuana across the republic and ordered existing plants destroyed, with offenders punished under Law 45 of 1946. It recalls that cultivation had already been prohibited by a health ministry resolution in 1939.[1]

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References

  1. United Nations — Laws and regulations communicated on narcotic drugs: Colombia, E/NL.1949/35archived

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