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Chile: Hundreds of Thousands Attend Largest Pro-Marijuana Demonstration Ever

Mike Bifari

Hemp News

Friday 12 Jun 2015

Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Santiago, Chile on Sunday to ask for a new law that allows the self-cultivation of marijuana and a change in the drug law in Chile. Estimates of 400,000 marchers are agreed on, but the number of people in Sunday's March range from 250,000 to 500,000, making it the largest pro-cannabis demonstration in history.

The demonstrators marched through the main streets of the Chilean capital to apply for a new drug policy and regulation of cannabis in March '11 Grow Your Rights' organized by Movimental, a civic association working with new drug law policies.

Movimental said that in recent years "the demand for a new drug policy and a new regulation on Cannabis, has achieved a remarkable and majority social legitimacy", which is reflected in the massive participation in the call on Sunday.

Families with children and people of all ages gathered at noon in a peaceful demonstration to demand, he said one of the participants told The Associated Press, "for the freedom of every person, it is a plant, like all others, such as tomatoes, such as avocado. It is a plant, there is nothing illegal, plant something natural."

Many attendees wore references to the marijuana plant, both as crown
tattooed on the body or printed on colorful flag backgrounds. The
march was also attended by people with different types of diseases who
resort to marijuana for medicinal use.

"I have diabetes, hypertension, lupus and now I found something in the
lung," a woman who identified herself only as Carmen told the AP. "The only thing that keeps me alive is that (marijuana)."

Movimental also distributed a manual cultivation for personal use and seeds for self-cultivation among adults, in defiance of the current Chilean law.

According to UN figures, Chile is the third largest consumer of cannabis in South America even though the law considers cannabis a dangerous drug under legislation passed during the first government of the current president Michelle Bachelet (2006-2010).

But in recent months there has been some progress. In April, the Health Commission of the Chamber of Deputies passed a bill to legalize self-cultivation of marijuana for private consumption and growing and selling medicinal purposes, which still must be validated by the Congress.

Also in that month, a municipality of Santiago collected the first crop of marijuana plants authorized in a pilot project that will benefit 200 cancer patients and many understand as a first step of "national medicinal cannabis production."

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