What does the Chilean law on drug production sanction?
The law penalizes those who elaborate, manufacture, transform, prepare or extract, without due authorization, narcotic or psychotropic substances or drugs that produce physical or mental dependence, capable of causing serious toxic effects or considerable damage to health.
Are there other substances that the law considers?
Also considered are those drugs or prohibited substances of the same nature that do not produce dependency or toxic effects, in which case the penalty is less.
Where is it clarified which substances are considered prohibited drugs?
In Chile there are substances whose production, sale and consumption is legal, in accordance with the conditions that regulate special laws, such as tobacco, alcohol and drugs.
In the Regulation of Law 20,000, contained in Decree No. 867 of the Ministry of the Interior, published in 2008, it is established which are the prohibited substances. In these cases, the production, manufacture, processing, distribution, transport, marketing, import and export are prohibited.
Likewise, the law punishes the possession or possession of precursors or essential chemical substances, with the objective of using them for the preparation of narcotic drugs or prohibited psychotropic substances.
What body is in charge of developing official drug policies?
The National Service for the Prevention and Rehabilitation of Drug and Alcohol Consumption (SENDA) is the government entity in charge of drug and alcohol prevention policies, as well as treatment, rehabilitation and social reintegration of people affected by these substances.
What is considered drug trafficking (drug trafficking)?
It will be understood that they commit the crime of drug trafficking, those who, without having the competent authorization, import, export, transport, acquire, transfer, subtract, possess, supply, keep or carry such harmful substances or the raw materials for their elaboration .
The penalty applied is greater prison in its minimum to medium degree (five years and one day to ten years).
What is considered micro-trafficking?
Trafficking of small amounts of drugs, which is usually carried by a trafficker on the street or in some public space for immediate sale to consumers. The penalty is minor imprisonment in its medium to maximum degrees and a fine of ten to forty monthly tax units, unless it justifies that they are intended for medical treatment or their exclusive and close personal use or consumption in time.
The penalty applied is major prison in its minimum to medium degree (five years and one day to fifteen years).
What if I have a marijuana plant in my house? Am I considered a dealer or producer?
If a person plants, cultivates or harvests plants of the cannabis genus without authorization, he risks a fine of between 40 and 400 UTM and imprisonment of three years and one day to ten years, unless he demonstrates that this plant is for personal consumption and next in time. In this case, the same sanctions will be applied as for consumption on public roads, unless it is demonstrated that the possession of the plant is due to medical treatment. Depending on the seriousness of the event and the personal circumstances of the person responsible, the penalty may be lowered by one degree.
Can you use drugs if it is for medical treatment?
A doctor can prescribe any narcotic or psychotropic drug as long as it is for therapeutic treatment. If the doctor prescribes without medical necessity, he is exposed to a fine of between 40 and 400 UTM and imprisonment for between five years and one day and fifteen years.
What penalty is applied to those who produce illicit drugs?
Those who elaborate, manufacture, transform, prepare or extract narcotic or psychotropic substances or drugs that produce physical or psychic dependence, capable of causing serious toxic effects or considerable damage to health, without due authorization, will be punished with greater prison in their degrees. minimum to medium (five years and one day to fifteen years) and a fine of forty to four hundred monthly tax units.
