http://santiagotimes.cl/opinion/special-reports/25227-drug-reform-in-chile-legalize-it

The article deals with the state of drug policy in Chile and attempts to legalize marijuana to combat drug trafficking. The author points out this topic because in the last U.N. General Assembly the presidents of Mexico, Guatemala and Colombia expressed for combating drug trafficking but in the same assembly the chilean Minister Alfredo Moreno did not address the issue because vthe drug is not an urgent... or so say politicians, contrary to what people believe, as shown in internet voting drug reform is the most popular initiative in Congress. 

The reform which seeks to institutionalize the self-cultivation of marijuana therapeutic purposes the raised in July the senators Fulvio Rossi and Ricardo Lagos Weber. The drug expert, Eduardo Vergara, difine the situation of Chile as paradigmatic because monetary despite efforts spent annually on the "war on drugs" the drug traffickers are increasingly might.

But the project does not move forward because there is no national consensus on the harmful effects of the marijuana in the health. Organizations like the SENDA consider it a gateway drug to more dangerous. Believe it may also cause schizophrenia, psychotic problems and respiratory diseases.
At any rate, Nelson Avila presented a bill to Congress calling for the legalization of cultivation and possession of cannabis, looking policies of other countries that have already solved this issue as Uruguay.