Eliana Eberle, the undersecretary of the Ministry of Production, Science and Technology of the province of Santa Fe, picks dry leaves from a marijuana plant at the state-owned medical cannabis research and development center (CIDCam), as Argentina launched an agency that will regulate the cultivation, industrial production, marketing and acquisition of seeds of the cannabis plant and hemp for medicinal and industrial purposes and is preparing to regulate the law promulgated in May 2022, in Monte Vera, Santa Fe province, Argentina March 1, 2023. REUTERS/Matias Baglietto