Chile opens debate on marijuana legalization
SANTIAGO, Chile -- Chile's congressional health committee approved a bill Monday that would legalize the cultivation of marijuana for private recreational or medicinal use, sending it to the floor for a full debate.
The bill would take marijuana off the list of hard drugs in the socially conservative country and make it a soft drug like alcohol.
It would allow people over the age of 18 to grow up to six cannabis plants for their own use, or for use by minors if they are patients using the substance as part of a prescribed treatment regimen.
But it would maintain the country's ban on using marijuana in public and limit the amount a person can possess to 10 grams.
"The committee's aim is not to allow the indiscriminate use of marijuana," said committee chairman Luis Castro, a member of President Michelle Bachelet's Socialist party.
"This is only about allowing (marijuana use) in...
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