Chile appears to have a medical cannabis market with sales of cannabidiol (CBD) based products. This is now the case in many countries around the world, after CBD was removed from scheduled lists by the UN, I think, around the same time that it rescheduled cannabis from its most restrictive Schedule IV lists to its least restrictive Schedule I list in December 2020 based on the recommendations by the World Health Organization (WHO) that the most serious side effects of cannabis are laughter and talkativeness.
There appear to be 'counterfeit' CBD products available in Chile, prompting its Public Health Institute to warn the public against these products. 'Counterfeit' here appears to mean those products that have not been endorsed by the Public Health Institute. What one sees here is all the drama that comes along with trying to make a natural herb like cannabis into a pharmaceutical product like the junk that is synthesized in laboratories and sold to the public as 'medicine'. The Institute acknowledges that CBD has therapeutic properties. It probably is trying to say that unregistered products may contain delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the most therapeutic compound in the cannabis plant.
This is a typical example of how the medical industry and pharmaceutical industry are trying to appropriate and profit from a natural herb that has been used by countless humans for thousands of years across the world. By positioning cannabis as a pharmaceutical product, these industries hope to milk the elite classes of society into contributing to their growing wealth and scare the public that smoking natural cannabis is dangerous. Cannabis is, first and foremost, the herb of the poorest classes of society, the indigenous communities and the working classes. It was first banned by the elites of the world in order to peddle their opium, tobacco, alcohol and synthetic pharmaceutical medicines. The world's poor ended up in prison when they tried to access cannabis, while the elites procured their cannabis from the black market while constantly opposing its legalization stating that it was harmful and addictive. As overwhelming scientific proof of the medical qualities of cannabis emerged and flooded the world, forcing the WHO and the UN to revise their stands on cannabis, the elites of the world decided that their stand on complete prohibition of cannabis was scientifically untenable and so decided that the next best thing was to try and control it as a pharmaceutical medicine. After decades of crushing the global systems of natural medicine that kept humans healthy for thousands of years and creating systems that are completely aligned to the synthetic pharmaceutical drugs that are synthesized in labs, the elites of the world are now trying to retrofit the natural herb cannabis into their regulatory systems for synthetic medicines. Through this, they hope to package cannabis as a pharmaceutical medicine that pharma companies have created and sell it to the elites at costs that no common man can afford and with regulations that ensure that nobody from the poorest classes can access it. By this, the elites of the world hope to profit from the very cannabis that they prohibited, destroyed and imprisoned countless people from the depressed classes for. By endorsing cannabis as pharmaceutical medicine, the elites hope to add a price tag to it that shows their value add to the natural herb.
So, if the Public Health Institute of Chile is really concerned about public health, what it would do is push the government to legalize the natural herb cannabis completely so that it can be grown in the country as a commodity at scales that mean that enough cannabis is cultivated to enable the poorest person in Chile to access and afford it. The amount of regulatory oversight that natural cannabis requires is about the same amount of oversight that any other cultivated crop in Chile requires. While neighbours Uruguay legalized cannabis for adult recreational purposes in 2014, Chile, like most other South American countries, is completely in the hands of the ruling elites that get rich from the industries opposed to cannabis. These industries contaminate air, water and land, destroy large swathes of natural green cover and then peddle their tobacco, alcohol, synthetic pharmaceutical drugs and illegal synthetic drugs like heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine. All the money that is generated by these industries flows into the pockets of the elites in industry and the politicians while entities like the Public Health Institute make statements that fool the public into thinking that they exist for the good of the people.
Legalizing cannabis completely, so that natural cannabis - with its natural balance of cannabinoids, including THC and CBD - is available for the people should be the focus of the government. Through this, not only will public health benefit greatly, but there will be immense benefits to the overall economy, business and the environment. The use of cannabis for a diverse range of sustainable industries such as biofuels, biodegradable plastics, construction, natural medicine, natural intoxicant, fabrics, footwear, food, beverages, wellness, tourism, research, automobile parts, animal feed, paper and packaging and so on will set Chile on a path of sustainable economics that can help counter the damage caused by the synthetic pharmaceutical industry, the petrochemical industry, the chemical pesticide and fertilizer industry, the mining industry, the paper and packaging industry, the alcohol industry, the tobacco industry, the opioid industry, the medical industry, and so on, that have enabled the elites in Chile to amass wealth, subjugate the poor and greatly increase the gap between the rich and the poor. Legalizing cannabis completely will protect the public from dangerous synthetic drugs like heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, fentanyl, etc. It will shrink the black market that peddles these illegal and dangerous synthetic drugs working in collusion with law enforcement, drug enforcement and politicians. It will give the elderly, the sick, women, indigenous communities, the poor and the youth a safe medicine and intoxicant that will improve their health. It will protect the youth from getting sucked into organized crime after being lured in, using cannabis and the dangerous synthetic drugs, by the criminals who operate the black market. It will reduce violent crime, homicides and domestic violence that are induced by alcohol, cocaine and methamphetamine. It will rejuvenate the soil, sequester carbon, provide nutrition for animals, birds and insects and help in the cross-pollination of natural flora. The natural climatic conditions of Chile will enable it to grow high quality cannabis at scales that ensure that there is not just enough cannabis for the entire population - especially the poorest of the poor and the indigenous communities - but also ensure that there is surplus cannabis that can be exported to North America, Europe and Oceania where the elites have realized that cannabis is probably the safest, most effective medicine and intoxicant in the world after decades of opposing it. In these elite countries now, the people seek cannabis but cannot grow it due to the adverse climatic conditions there. Therefore, their only option is to import it from the countries that have been traditional cannabis cultivating and consuming countries like those in South America, Africa and Asia. The large scale cultivation of cannabis in Chile will reduce the smuggling inwards of cannabis from neighbouring countries, meaning that law and drug enforcement can focus on addressing violent crimes and financial crimes. Legalizing cannabis will release all the people in prison or facing trial for cannabis, thus freeing up the judiciary to address real crimes. Some of these are the reasons why Uruguay, Canada, South Africa, Germany, Malta, Luxembourg and 24 out of 50 US states (at the time of writing) have legalized cannabis for recreational use so far.
Legalizing cannabis completely is what is required today, not frivolous attempts at portraying to the people that the government is concerned about public health. Legalizing cannabis will, of course, be a significant setback for the elites who control and oppress the people through the current governments and industries. Does the government of Chile have the spine to legalize cannabis completely or will it continue with the posturing that most governments the world over do who function for their own selfish interests betraying the trust that the people bestowed on them? The best way to avoid counterfeiting is to go natural because nature cannot be counterfeited, unlike the synthetics that humans create...
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'“Any product” with CBD “that currently does not have a health registration granted by this Institute is a counterfeit pharmaceutical product and its quality, safety and efficacy cannot be guaranteed to the population,” Juan Roldán of the Public Health Institute of Chile said in the press release.
According to the health authority, after a “rigorous” evaluation of CBD, the institute determined that because of its therapeutic properties – analgesic, anti-inflammatory, anticonvulsant are mentioned – products with the active ingredient must obtain a premarketing sanitary registration like any other medicine.'
https://mjbizdaily.com/chile-health-authority-warns-of-counterfeit-cannabis-medicines/
'Methamphetamine trafficked from Canada has been reported in the United States, South America (Chile), Oceania (Australia and New Zealand) and a few countries in Europe (Iceland and Latvia).' - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, World Drug Report 2020, https://wdr.unodc.org/wdr2020/field/WDR20_Booklet_3.pdf
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