The suspicions turned out to be true. After Gastón Morales (the son of former governor Gerardo Morales) left the management of Cannava Avatara SE—a Jujuy state-owned company dedicated, according to its website, to the production of cannabis derivatives for scientific and medicinal purposes—in the hands of Marcelo Guastella (who until then served as its executive director and industrial operations manager), this week confirmed his official departure from the company and plans to sell it to foreign companies. "I am closing my cycle at the head of this state-owned company after 7 years. I leave the company today with a real market valuation that almost triples what the province invested over these 7 years," Morales said yesterday at a press conference, in which he took stock of his management. Cannabis Avatãra Sociedad del Estado was created in 2018 through provincial law 6.088, and began operations in 2019. Although the information provided on its website has changed in recent ...