Cannabis double-edged sword

Ana Catalina González

Cannabis, also known as marijuana among many other names, is now a subject of debate and much controversy, the news that Huila can become a Medical marijuana protagonist exporting power that promises to boost the economy of the region with the investment of $ 60 million is the company Spectrum Cannabis that acquired the company Opina Colombian Cannabis incorporated two years ago ; they want to establish the extraction factory in Neiva and Palermo, for the purpose of medicinal use, although it has been approved in several countries for recreational or medicinal purposes, will be we ready to badume the consequences of these cultures?

three years ago, the fever for the medical marijuana business, after the government and the legislature decided to create a stable legal framework that today recognizes the entrepreneurs. Senator Juan Manuel Galán proposes Legislative Act 02 of 2009, which amended Article 49 of the Constitution, creating a legal void by vaguely baderting that "the transportation and consumption of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances are prohibited, except medical prescription. "Many citizens claim that its medicinal use for pain, reduce anxiety, depression, as well as improve mood because its contents are directed to the central nervous system, in medicinal doses nothing that another drug can not do, the substance tetrahydrocannabinol or THC marijuana (hemp) generates dependence and the short and long-term effects are not completely clear, patients can reach the & médicament,, addition because the side effects remain the same as recreational and if it can not be controlled, it may be falling into modality it is a very variable practice as a therapy to generate a pleasant and calm condition but at home an addict their interest is different, on top of that it can also be a bridge for the legalization of recreational marijuana, also for purposes of drug trafficking although there is law s and control bodies as there have been in other projects the corruption and benefits of t erceros can be a big threat to the territory, which can generate posters in the shadows of therapeutic medicine to protect oneself from the law and produce economic benefits that would eventually lose the real goal by turning it into illicit savings.

To balance expectations, advantages and disadvantages that could be beneficial for a country, those who work with medical marijuana agree that despite the decree, the regulation is not clear and recommends taking advantage of the situation to prepare for a future where the use of cannabis not only in the categorization of the law but also in the protection of the environment and the social cost that it represents is a subject that still requires more studies. Hopefully the pharmaceutical science will provide a synthetic drug without the harmful side effects of cannabis.

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