In the 1st Supplement of the Official Gazette No. 107 of
December 24, 2019, the Reform of the Criminal Law was
published, which will enter into force in June 21, 2020.
Included among the reforms, is the decriminalization of
possession of drugs that contain cannabis or derivatives as their
active ingredient for therapeutic, palliative or medicinal ends, or
for the practice of alternative medicine. In addition, the Law of
Control and Prevention of the use of Drugs has been amended,
excluding non-psychoactive or hemp cannabis from control, extended
to the cannabis plant or any part of the plant, whose
delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) content is less than 1%.
The Ministry of Agriculture will have 120 days from the entry
into force of this law to issue the regulations to control the
import, planting, cultivation, harvest, sale, industrialization and
exportation of industrial hemp. Furthermore, shortly the National
Assembly must approve the Health Law, in which cannabis
