December 2019 was a month of legal changes in Ecuador. First,
the Organic Law Reforming the Comprehensive Organic Criminal Code
was published. Still, it was not until June 2020 that it came into
force, reforming the Organic Law for the Comprehensive Prevention
of the Socioeconomic Phenomenon of Drugs and the Regulation and
Control of the Use of Listed Substances Subject to Control. The
magazine Industria Legal dedicates a page to the information
offered about this matter by our expert partner in Regulatory Law,
Felipe Samaniego since this reform gave way to Ecuador's new
cannabis and hemp industry.
The exclusion of substances subject to control to cannabis and
hemp with less than 1% THC in dry weight and a term of 120 days for
the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock to issue the
corresponding regulation are among the new reforms.
