Legislation: Plant vs. Drug

Enacting laws that impact everyone’s health is an obligation of the modern state. It is a highly nuanced, idealistic mandate, involving a legislative and technical path riddled with pitfalls and therefore fraught with danger. This is precisely what has happened with the legislative process to ensure legal certainty regarding the use, production, transportation, and marketing of the two forms of marijuana and its alkaloids: “medicinal” and “recreational.”