Parkinson, refractory epilepsy and cancer cases are some of the diseases that can be treated with medicinal cannabis. Meet the first cannabis clinic in the country.
Advancing the implementation and acceptance of marijuana as atherapeutic substance in our country, to treat diseases like Parkinson ‘s , epilepsy cases Refractarias and cancer .
24 and 25 September in the province of Salta will be held the first seminar of CannabisMedicinal North, which has the support of the Chamber of Deputies, where specialists give lectures and workshops, which will have as themes the medical application of cannabis, Argentine experiences ongoing national and international scientific research, case patients and families, legal and regulatory aspects and experiences of organizations of mothers and fathers growers for home treatment of diseases diagnosed in their children.
Among the specialists who will participate in this meeting is Carlos Laje, an ophthalmologist who Cordoba created in the first ‘Clinic Cannabis ‘. His office is located in the Cordovan capital already received 800 patients, are families and individuals who padecien not just a disease but a situation. In an interview with local daily La Voz del Interior, Laje said: “I opened this clinic because there is a lack of state and the medical community Openness is a way to provoke a reaction I am a father, I’m adoctor and I hear.. hundreds of stories of distressed people. the clinic is a holding space in which the patient is not only because he wants to listen when at stake is the lives of you or your child, but you need that may bring a medicine traceable. today you can import cannabis, the famous oil Charlotte, but still there is no national medical cannabis industry, as Uruguay and Chile started it . ”
It is the former Clinical Velez Sarsfield, now Mirada Foundation: Cannabis Clinic Córdoba where a working team composed of professionals with a comprehensive approach on health.
Laje says the illness of his daughter took him to a moment of great anguish, which could turn into hope through his research on cannabis: “Before this, I knew the marijuana as a drug, it was not user and not the He is seen as a therapeutic option to any pathology. But when I started to tell me , seeing the work that many people did before us, I trained in the subject. And I, I have a master ‘sdegree in Health Economics and a PhD in Health Sciences, I had to start studying all over again. I started there will relate to specialists, with patient groups and joined international networks , “he said.
In Argentina 23,737 law still in force, Tenure and Traffic in Narcotic Drugs, shame cultivation, possession and use of marijuana . “When health is at stake, welfare and anguish of a family, is not so much a question of legality but legitimacy. So I think that Argentina would a big step if we were toallow sociosanitary the cannabis medicine has no borders. The law invisibiliza human pain. If someone believes that doctors and patients break the law, well, we will have to judge or will history judge us. ”
Through the National Drug Administration (ANMAT), the National Government and some 120 families authorized to import cannabis to supply drugs to children with epilepsy. Meanwhile, the province of Chubut passed a law that incorporated oil cannabis formulary of state social work so it can be delivered in public hospitals.
