- Chamber of Deputies approved the Crop Insurance Act Wednesday with transverse support.
He managed to overcome his first major obstacle this Wednesday the project that seeks to regulate the use of medicinal cannabis and protect all patients from possible criminal punishments, after the Chamber of Deputies will approve the initiative in particular.
After voting on the indications, The text was approved as it came out of the House Health Committee, demonstrating broad and transversal support, that is, that part of the right also supported him, hence Now it went to the Senate to continue with its processing.
As we have already told, The project is a single article that incorporates into the Health Code a rule that indicates that “in the case of the manufacture of products derived from species, subspecies and varieties of the genus cannabis, intended for the care of medical treatment, must be prescribed by a treating surgeon, through the corresponding prescription issued in accordance with the provisions of the law and regulations”.
further, adds that said medical prescription must also indicate “diagnosis of the disease, its corresponding treatment and the form of administration of cannabis, which in no case may be through combustion.".
Then, The project indicates that the aforementioned prescription will constitute sufficient authorization, regarding the limitation established in the Law 20.000 (art. 8) about self-cultivation, “when specifying the required dose, the duration of the treatment and corresponds to any of the diseases that can be treated using these products”.
It is still premature to know the deadlines in which the Senate will process the Safe Cultivation Law, You must first know the “provision” of the senators to carry out the initiative.
