Colombia’s Supreme Court removes cap on legal amount of drugs

The latest sentence makes carrying all marijuana for personal use legal
Colombia Reports (US)
Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Colombia’s Supreme Court has overruled a previous ruling in which it had set a maximum amount of marijuana a person can carry. The latest sentence makes carrying all marijuana for personal use legal. The court’s landmark ruling followed a case of a Colombian soldier who had been caught with 50 grams of the illicit herb. Until Monday, the maximum amount of drugs a person can carry was set at 20 grams for marijuana and one gram for cocaine. The latest ruling removed this fixed cap, leaving authorities without the legal possibility to arrest anyone claiming to carry drugs for personal use.