For criminal lawyer Pablo Encalada this measure will not have major effects. The jurist said through his social network X that the Constitutional Court said in a sentence that the thresholds of drug possession are referential and it is up to the Prosecutor’s Office (police) to prove possession for trafficking. But it is still absurd, he exclaimed.

Meanwhile, the jurist Paulina Araujo in a report of the digital portal Primicias pointed out that, in practice, Noboa’s decree is inapplicable because it goes against a ruling of the Constitutional Court and Article 364 of the Constitution that defines addictions as a “public health problem”.

Likewise, the president of the House of Ecuadorian Culture, Fernando Cerón, catalogued the decision of the president as an unacceptable error, which goes against all technical precepts on the fight against drug trafficking and public policy of drug prevention.

This Friday, Noboa ordered the Ministry of the Interior to repeal Resolution 001 CONSEP-CD-2013 and its reforms, which indicates the quantities of narcotic and psychotropic substances to punish drug trafficking.

In the document, the ruler also instructed the Ministry of Public Health to develop coordinated programs for information, prevention and control of the consumption of narcotic and psychotropic substances, as well as to offer treatment and rehabilitation to habitual and problematic occasional users.

The drug consumption table establishes maximum amounts that a person can carry without being imprisoned.

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