Psychoactive Cannabis License Quotas in Colombia, 2017-2025

Cupos otorgados para licencias de cannabis psicoactivo tracks the quotas granted for cultivating psychoactive cannabis plants in Colombia. The data includes counts for initial applications and granted quotas for both ordinary and supplementary license types. Information is available from 2017 through the first quarter of 2025, sourced from the Colombian open data portal www.datos.gov.co.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in license demand and approval rates using SOLICITUDES PRIMERA VEZ DE CUPOS ORDINARIOS and CUPOS PRIMERA VEZ ORDINARIOS OTORGADOS.
• Comparing the volume of special circumstance requests to regular operations using SOLICITUDES PRIMERA VEZ DE CUPOS SUPLEMENTARIOS and CUPOS PRIMERA VEZ SUPLEMENTARIOS OTORGADOS.
• Creating a monthly time series of regulatory activity by joining AÑO and MES columns with quota counts.
• Modeling seasonal patterns in license applications by aggregating SOLICITUDES PRIMERA VEZ DE CUPOS ORDINARIOS by MES.

Strengths

• Provides a multi-year time series from 2017 to Q1 2025.
• Distinguishes between two clear license quota types: ordinary and supplementary.
• Includes separate columns for applications and granted quotas, enabling rate analysis.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

www.datos.gov.co (Colombian open data portal).

Collection Method

Likely contains administrative records from the national cannabis licensing authority.

Time Range

2017 to the first quarter of 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 19:00:11; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Colombia.