Adecuación del cannabis medicinal y sus subproductos en el sistema jurídico ecuatoriano

Abstract

On December 24, 2019 the National Assembly in its plenary meeting approved the Reform Law to the Comprehensive Organic Penal Code, which among its articles decriminalizes marijuana hemp that contains less than 1% of a psychoactive component (THC), which later led to the creation by the Ministry of Agriculture to the creation of the Regulation for the Importation, Sowing, Cultivation, Harvest, Post-Harvest, Storage, Transportation, Processing, Marketing and Export of Non-Psychoactive Cannabis or Hemp and Hemp for Industrial Use. Legal events that inspire this Research that addresses the issue of the adaptation of Medicinal Cannabis in the Ecuadorian legal system; As it is a legal novelty in our country, the need has been revealed to couple various legal institutions in force to the use and implementation of medicinal hemp as well as to create new institutions or policies that make the proper implementation of hemp viable in all its cultivation phases, harvest, production and commercialization of the different products that the plant can offer. In addition, the objective of this degree work is to study the regulations that are in force around the world. Locate the diseases that can be treated with these types of drugs, emphasizing the palliative treatments that are offered and the right to enjoy health and therefore a dignified life and death for the individuals who need it.