QCOSTARICA – Legislators authorised in second and closing debate the partially vetoed invoice that legalizes the manufacturing of hashish for medicinal functions and hemp for industrial use.
Two articles had been faraway from the textual content and one was modified to observe the suggestions made by president Carlos Alvarado when he vetoed it on January 13.
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The ultimate vote was 35 of the 57 legislators in favor.
“I have a good time the ultimate approval of the Hemp and Hashish Regulation after the veto. On this means, job alternatives and various remedies shall be generated for a lot of sufferers with power illnesses,” mentioned Silvia Hernández, president of the Legislature.
Unbiased legislator, Zoila Volio, spoke in regards to the problem in advancing with this kind of laws.
For his half, the Partido Liberacion Nacional (PLN) legislator, Roberto Thompson, defined that the initiative improves the standard of lifetime of many.
The invoice now heads again to Casa Presidencial the place President Carlos Alvarado should signal it.
The medicinal use and manufacturing of hashish and hemp is authorized in additional than 20 nations, with a pre-pandemic world market of 1 billion individuals.
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