A bill to legalize marijuana in Colombia has officially passed the Chamber of Representatives and now heads to the Senate for the its final two hurdles before it’s potentially sent to the president.
Following a narrow, procedural vote last month, lawmakers took up the legislation again on Tuesday, approving it in the sixth of eight required debates in a 98-57 vote. Now it must go to a Senate committee and then pass on the floor of that chamber to be enacted.
Colombia is “ready to take a step towards a new drug policy that abandons the failed paradigm of prohibition and opens the field for a policy guided by the guidelines of public health, the prevention of consumption and the guarantee of citizens’ rights,” the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Juan Carlos Losada Vargas of the Liberal party, said in an op-ed last month.
Por ser Acto Legislativo requiere de 8 debates, vamos en el sexto.
Nos quedan 2 debates en @SenadoGovCo que deben darse antes del 20 de junio.
Estamos a muy poco de hacer historia.#EsHoraDeRegular el #CannabisDeUsoAdulto#LaMataNoMata pic.twitter.com/ZIHWnXVIE5
— Juan Carlos Losada (@JuanKarloslos) May 9, 2023
“We are very little away from starting to write a new history in the
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