Argentina's Senate approved a bill approving the medical use of marijuana in the country on Wednesday. The text had already obtained a green light from the Chamber of Deputies in November 2016. The information is from the EFE Agency.
The proposal, which guarantees certain patients access to cannabis oil, enabling importation until the government is in a position to produce it, was unanimously approved by the 58 Argentine senators.
Defended by civil organizations such as Mamá Cultiva, consisting of mothers whose children need cannabis oil to alleviate the effects of their diseases, the bill authorizes marijuana to be produced by several state scientific bodies for research purposes, but does not allow cultivation particular.
"We now have a legal framework in use for research, treatment and production of medical cannabis. There was nothing in Argentina and it was what we, as mothers and organization, sought," Ana María García, president of the organization Cannabis Medicinal Argentina (Cameda).
With this approval, Argentina joins other Latin American countries like Colombia, Uruguay and Chile, which already have measures that regulate the therapeutic use of marijuana.
"We are very pleased to continue building knowledge about what we talk about medical cannabis," added Ana María, a doctor and mother of a 24-year-old girl with refractory epilepsy.
"It has to be understood that this, as a medical use, is already validated for cancer pain, neuropathic pain, multiple sclerosis. One has to think that there are 30% of epilepsies that do not respond to medication," he said.
After a long session, in which other matters were also discussed, the senators decided to approve the initiative without prior debate, since the project had already received broad treatment and consensus in legislative committees.
Once the State can produce the substance, priority will be given to the centers that make up the National Agency of Public Laboratories.
In addition, the law, which should now be regulated, authorizes the cultivation of cannabis by the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research and the National Institute of Agricultural Technology for research purposes and to elaborate the substance intended for the treatments.
"With 50 years of prohibition, it is a law of beginning, then we will build everything," said the president of the Cameda, noting that although several provinces already have legislation in the matter, this is The first time that such a rule is adopted at national level.
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