Peru legalises medical marijuana in move spurred by mother's home lab
Source: Guardian
Proposal to decriminalise the drug came after police raided a makeshift laboratory where a group of women made cannabis oil for their sick children
Dan Collyns in Lima
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Friday 20 October 2017 15.57 EDT
Lawmakers in Peru have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a bill to legalise medical marijuana, allowing cannabis oil to be locally produced, imported and sold.
With a vote of 68-5, Peru’s Congress approved the bill which will be written into law in 60 days, once regulations for producing and selling cannabis have been set out.
Alberto de Belaunde, a governing party lawmaker and advocate of the proposal, said: “We’ve ensured that thousands of patients and their family members will enjoy a better quality of life.”
“This is a historic moment and my dream is that empathy and evidence can continue to defeat fears and prejudices,” he told the Guardian.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/20/peru-marijuana-cannabis-legal-terminally-ill-children