Medical cannabis: the first legal production center in Argentina will be installed in Jujuy

The Ministry of Security of the Nation signed yesterday the authorization of the first center to develop

medicinal cannabis

in Argentina. It will work in
Jujuy and in addition to production, scientific, medicinal and therapeutic studies will be carried out.

Thus, Jujuy will become this year the first province in the country to legally grow cannabis for medical use, as established in the
Bill 27,350 penalized in 2017.

"On the basis of a comprehensive technical badysis carried out by specialists of the federal forces, it was concluded that the establishment had the necessary safety standards and that it complied with the legal guidelines imposed on the levels. national and provincial "explained the portfolio that leads

Patricia Bullrich

in a statement.

"Having the permission of the Ministry of National Security means that the Jujuy Province project is safe in terms of preventing any criminal event that may occur," said Glamor Morales, the governor's son.
Gerardo Morales and president of Cannabis Avatara Sociedad del Estado.

Governor Morales' request was made last August. Then, the Security commissioned the national gendarmerie to inspect the facilities of the "Finca El Pongo", located on the provincial road 1, near the town of Perico.

The cultivation will be carried out in an open field on an area of ​​5 to 15 hectares and the seeds will arrive at the end of the month to start the process of germination, which is calculated "will last about two months, so that it will be transplanted on the farm of the third, "said the entrepreneur.

The pilot project plans to complete it in June in order to be able to "elaborate, with precise and concrete technical data, an industrial cultivation plan of a much larger area of ​​500 hectares over the next five years," he said. Mr. Morales. It seeks to obtain scientific certainty regarding the adaptation of the plant to the soil conditions, water, air and climate of the place.

To progress in production and industrialization, it should start producing cannabis oil "between August and November this year".

Judicial complaints

MPP Alejandra Cejas, meanwhile, today filed a complaint with the Jujuy Superior Court of Justice seeking the unconstitutionality of the law creating the cannabis company Avatara SE by claiming that it was "illegal". it has drug export purposes for the United States.

"Four days ago, we learned that the American company Green Leaf Farmas International, which is the counterpart of this Jujuy-based company, announced that it was abandoning all of its operations in North America and had just come out of business. to install in Jujuy to plant 14.6 hectares El Pongo ", said the legislator to Telam.

Telam Agency