In cassation 29183, the Supreme Court acquitted a habitual cannabis user caught with 29.9 grams, above the statutory 20-gram personal dose. As the Constitutional Court later explained, the circumstances showed personal consumption without distribution or sale and no injury to the interests protected by the trafficking offence. The decision applied the requirement of substantive harm to this case; it did not replace the statutory limit with a general 29.9-gram allowance or permit dealing.[1][2]
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References
- Colombia Supreme Court — cassation 29183, opening and facts reproduced by vLexOriginal judgment heading dated 18 November 2008 and facts reporting 29.9 grams; freely readable excerptarchived
- Colombia Constitutional Court — Judgment C-491/12Section 19.2 recounts the 2008 acquittal and quotes its reasoning; later judicial restatementarchived
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