Mexico publishes medicinal cannabis regulation, step toward world's largest legal market

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The cannabis reform taking place includes the recreational use of marijuana, and will create what would be the world’s biggest national cannabis market in terms of population.

The new medicinal rules state companies which wish to carry out research have to obtain permission from the Mexican health regulator, COFEPRIS, and this research has to be done in strictly controlled, independent laboratories.

“ is not aimed at patients growing their own cannabis, it is aimed at pharmaceutical companies producing pharmaceutical derivatives of cannabis which are classified as controlled substances that need prescription," he said. While some cannabis plant imports are permitted for companies looking to create products, exports of Mexican-grown cannabis is prohibited.

 

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I wish they wouldn’t keep screwing with it and making it more potent or more this or that. It’s become just another corporate product. Nature made it best. That was the whole point initially.

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