Argentina Expands Biomass Architecture

ARICCAME has established a new licensing framework covering non-intoxicating flower, biomass and other harvested material containing less than 1% THC. Resolution 69/2026 creates four five-year license categories covering cultivation, manufacturing, related services and foreign trade, with annual validation requirements.

The rules require production controls, testing, lot identification and traceability. An interesting detail: crops exceeding the 1% threshold but testing no higher than 2.5% THC can enter an administrative review and additional-testing process rather than automatically becoming violations.

Argentina established its broader hemp and medical framework through Law 27.669 in 2022, followed by implementing rules in 2023. Earlier commercial rules concentrated largely on seed, grain and fiber; Resolution 69 moves flower and biomass into a defined regulated channel and explicitly contemplates medicinal, nutritional, cosmetic, veterinary, industrial and research uses.

The foreign-trade license also permits imports and exports of dried horticultural material and reference samples, although customs, pharmaceutical, food and plant-health approvals remain under their respective agencies.

Argentina isn’t merely changing a THC threshold. It’s building the inventory-control architecture needed to turn flower and biomass into a commercial commodity: licenses, lots, testing, traceability, manufacturing and import/export permissions.