Drug Decriminalization in Colombia

(Bogota, Colombia) The Colombian Supreme Court has ruled that possession and consumption of drugs are not punishable offenses.

According to the court, penalizing the personal use of drugs violates the "free development of personality."

The court found that Legislative Act No.2, 2009, which banned the personal use of drugs, "implies the nullification of fundamental rights, and it represses and sanctions with the severest punishments (imprisonment) the personal decision to abandon one's personal health, a choice that corresponds to their own decision and does not infringe on the rights of other members of society."

Violates the free development of personality? Anyone know what that means?