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The Ministry of National Security has signed the authorization of the country's first center for the study and cultivation of medicinal cannabis, which will operate in the province of Jujuy through the intermediary of the company. State Cannabis Avatara SE in partnership with Green Leaf Farms International, a US-based company that will finance the production, manufacturing and distribution stages. The resolution, published Monday in the Official Journal, has already been questioned in various sectors. While Valeria Salech, president of the organization Mama Cultiva, stressed "these are still those who have been working on this for more than 10 years" and she raised objections because it is unclear what will be the fate of the oil, MPP Alejandra Cejas. and lawyer Juan Giusti presented this Monday before the Superior Court of Justice of Jujuy a petition for application of the unconstitutional provincial law no. 6088 which had created last year the public company Cannabis Avatara, of which l & # 39; Address will be the responsibility of Gastón Morales, son of the governor of Jujuy. According to the denounced MP, the company would have "export purposes of drugs for the United States".

It is the first authorized center for the study and cultivation of medicinal cannabis. The spaces provided by Law 27,350 are sanctioned in 2017. The pilot project will be established on state-owned land, on an area of ​​5 to 15 hectares of the farm of El Pongo. located on the provincial road n ° 1, in the city of Perico Jujeña. According to Gastón Morales, the seeds will arrive at the end of the month to begin the process of germination and cultivation. It is estimated that the pilot project will be completed by June: "there, they will be able to develop, with precise and concrete technical data, a plan of industrial culture of an area much larger 500 hectares over the next five years, "said Morales.

The production of cannabis oil will also be carried out in the province of Jujuy, in the free zone. However, admitted Morales in an interview on the radio, "the laboratory will be private", with "the participation of the province in the profits generated, in the same way as throughout the process of cultivation". Regarding distribution, the director of the new state-owned company said that the oil would be intended not only for all pathologies allowed by the National Secretariat for Health, but that it would also be exported "to the legal markets of the world".