Colombia fully legalises medical marijuana

In International Affairs
December 24, 2015

Colombia’s president Juan Manuel Santos has signed a decree fully legalising medical marijuana in a shift away from preventing drug crop production. Until now marijuana production in Colombia had fallen into a legal grey area. While a 1986 law allowed for the manufacture, export, sale, and medical and scientific use of marijuana, the practice was, until Tuesday, never formally regulated. Many Columbians may be looking to safely smoke and inhale medical marijuana now it has become more regulated. A possible way they might do this is by investing in equipment such as ice bongs. This could potentially be an attractive method as ice bongs allow you to smoke more pleasantly, or they may consider going through a more traditional method of inhaling.

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