News of cannabis

Jujuy prepares for ‘largest medicinal cannabis harvest’ in Latin America

27-04-2022 17:01 Jujuy Province Governor Gerardo Morales helps get “largest Latin American harvest” of cannabis grown for medicinal purposes underway; State-run firm Cannava has 80,000 plants over 35 hectares, which will help produce 25,000 kilogrammes of “pharmaceutical grade flower.”

BLOOMBERG

Cannabis price drop creates opportunity for Paraguay

03-01-2022 12:36 As cannabis starts to behave more like an agricultural commodity, there’s a race to find the best growing climate at the lowest cost. In South America, a new candidate is emerging: Paraguay.

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Gerardo Morales: ‘I wouldn’t vote for Mauricio Macri again, no’

02-10-2021 08:36 Jujuy Governor Gerardo Morales on Radicalism, his fellow opposition leaders, the 2021 elections and why cannabis will soon mean more to his province than lithium and renewable energies.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Bloomberg

Colombia gets a leg up in global marijuana export market

09-08-2021 14:50 Colombia is already world renowned for its coffee beans and flowers. Now, a new decree could make it a a major exporter of marijuana as well.

Medical Marijuana

Jujuy governor encourages tobacco producers to switch to cannabis

12-04-2021 09:00 Jujuy Province Governor Gerardo Morales has suggested that tobacco farmers begin growing cannabis instead, potentially opening up a multi-million-dollar market – but the province's tobacco chamber isn't fully on board.

LEGAL MARIJUANA IN MEXICO?

Mexico prepares for legal marijuana gold rush

18-03-2021 11:52 Mexican lawmakers are close to approving legalisation that is expected to catapult the country's regulated cannabis trade into a billion-dollar legal marijuana market.

MEDICAL MARIJUANA

Medical cannabis: Fernández proposes new bill to develop industry

06-03-2021 09:11 National government and pharmaceuticals sector have agreed to invest millions of dollars in the production of medical cannabis, says president.

MEDICAL MARIJUANA

Medicinal cannabis: Argentine investors eye piece of new green gold

06-03-2021 09:07 National private-sector group plunges into the medicinal cannabis industry by taking control of Canadian-based company Blueberries. Among the investors in this multi-million venture, former PRO deputy Facundo Garretón and Claudio Belocopitt, the owner of Swiss Medical Group and Grupo América.

by Santiago Carrillo

THIS WEEK

What we learned this week: November 7 to 14

14-11-2020 10:21 A round-up of some of the key stories that caught our eye over the last seven days in Argentina.

DRUG LAWS

Argentina legalises growing of cannabis for medical use by individuals

12-11-2020 18:31 By decree, the government legalises home cultivation of cannabis for medical use by individuals and small networks, as well as the sale of creams and oils made from the plant in pharmacies.