Chile Forum

admin wrote:Tell you all what, before someone gets thrown in jail reading this thread, I'll have one of our law students pull the recent law next week. My wife seems to think there was a recent change that somewhat decriminalized it for personal use, but says she has not kept up on it. Still I would not recommend starting your plantation just yet. Smoking a joint is one thing, growing it in industrial quantities is a whole different show. If you grew just corn in sufficiently large quantities to be really profitable you would be under all kinds of regulations also.

So uh Charles ? Any luck having your students pull the recent law on the books? I read the article posted but it didn't mention any personal use loop-holes. Just wondering....

Yea I got a bit more information, and guess what? It is even crazier than any of us imagined.

It is legal to possess personal use marijuana in Chile. I am still trying to get a definition of the amounts and such.

However, there is a really crazy catch. When they say "personal use", they mean "personal use". It is illegal to smoke marijuana with another person. So if you are at a party, and want to smoke, you can legally step in to a closet and light up. If your friend joins you in the closet, now you have committed a crime.


There is actually a political campaign going on to correct this in the law, because 9 times out of 10 when someone gets busted it is group of teenagers at a party sharing a joint.

Likely a good way to control the flue outbreak.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Leave it to Chile to have ridiculous loop-holes. Ah well, I don't smoke anything myself. I bake brownies I wonder what kind of wrench that would throw in their loop holes...

audeo13 wrote:HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Leave it to Chile to have ridiculous loop-holes. Ah well, I don't smoke anything myself. I bake brownies I wonder what kind of wrench that would throw in their loop holes...

Well I guess if you eat them by yourself you are okay, but if you share them with friends...

Te answer for the loop-hole is a simple one… It is for medicinal use not recreational use. Some one using it to treat a medical condition wouldn’t be sharing with anyone.

I hear, as of 2010 i believe, that the laws have been toughened even further. It seems Chile is in a big hurry to follow the States lead in every illogical policy possible.

Has the issue of the "33 miners" and their dope-smoking whilst underground made the popular press?

To deal with the, uh, stress I guess.

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/CanadaAM/2011 ... an-110219/ and other sources

It is legal to possess personal use marijuana in Chile.

Thus I imagine, "by default" fashion, it should be legal to have at least 2 plants (one male and one female, for pollination) to grow said mj for 'personal use'.....

Ultimately, silence (from carabineros) = consent

I believe in Canada as well it is one thing to smoke a joint (still illegal) but passing or sharing a joint is trafficking. Stupid law.