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In January 2026, the national government moved forward with a reconfiguration of the organization chart Ministry of Health that impacts sensitive areas such as disability, drug policies and public health. In this context, doubts began to circulate about the future of the medical cannabis and of Cannabis Program Registration (REPROCANN).
With the official information available so far, this is what actually changes (and what doesn’t).
Medical cannabis is still valid
It is important to clarify it from the beginning: the decrees published in the Official Gazette they do not eliminate or discontinue medicinal cannabis, they do not modify existing legislation, neither they repeal Law 27,350 nor REPROCANN. The medicinal use of cannabis it is still fully valid within the national health framework.
What does change is how the State organizes and manages that policy.
As of decrees 942/2025 and 27/2026, the Secretariat of Comprehensive Drug Policies of the Argentine Nation (SEDRONAR) remains formally integrated into the Ministry of Health and it receives explicit powers linked to medicinal cannabis.
In its official objectives, SEDRONAR goes to:
- Attend the Ministry of Health in the implementation of treatments based on medicinal cannabis and its derivatives;
- Collaborate in the systematization of the necessary records;
- Participate in the development of research linked to these treatments.
An institutional and structural change, not normative or legal
The main novelty is character institutional and administrative, non-normative. The Ministry of Health continues to be the health authority and no existing rights or authorizations are lost.
However, the formal entry of SEDRONAR introduces a conceptual displacement: medicinal cannabis, which in Argentina historically advanced as a public health response —driven by patients, health professionals and civil organizations—, is also beginning to be managed by an organization traditionally associated with it prevention of problematic use, addictions and drug policy.
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For the specialist Juan Palomino, this point is key: “The decree does not change the law or the rights achieved. Everything is still valid. But it does reorder the medical cannabis policy, which it goes from a strictly health approach to one more associated with drug policies, problematic consumption and addictions. Paradigmatically, that raises concern”, he commented to The Approach.
What happens to REPROCANN after the new decree?
He REPROCANN is not explicitly mentioned in the decrees or in the published objectives. Even so, when talking about “systematization of the necessary records” within the framework of medicinal cannabis, it is clear that the record it continues to exist within the healthcare orbit.
So far:
- There is no rule that provides for its elimination.
- His suspension was not announced.
- No concrete changes were reported in its operating criteria.
What the decrees do not say
The official texts they do not introduce modifications about:
- Adult or recreational use.
- Penalty.
- Non-medicinal cultivation.
- New legal restrictions.
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Nor are immediate changes announced in current procedures for patients, solidarity growers or organizations.
In summary
Recent changes reflect a institutional reorganization within the Ministry of Health, with one greater participation of SEDRONAR in medical cannabis policy, but without altering the current legal framework.
For now, this is a structural change and not a regulatory one. It remains to be seen how this new articulation is implemented and what real impact it will have on the management of REPROCANN and on the access of patients and organizations to the system.
Medical cannabis continues to be a health policy in Argentina, although its framework within the State is beginning to be redefined.
