– Chilean organization expands its borders and was officially launched in the neighboring country will begin working with medicinal cannabis. The initiative was launched at the Metropolitan University for Education and Work (Umet), in Buenos Aires.
Last Thursday 7 of April, the civil association Mama Cultiva Argentina was presented, whose main objectives are to individually and collectively grow the cannabis that their children need, promote laws that allow and facilitate the use of cannabis in medicinal form and strive for free information on the subject and accessibility without economic restrictions to those who need this medicine.
“We are the voice of our children. I wish I had the seizures, but I don't have them. And I have to be strong, I don't let myself be intimidated. Many of us have children with these pathologies since they were born.. Others left a child in the guard and took another: babeando, looking into nothing. And the doctors tell us that that is normal. We have suffered a lot. but a lot. Cannabis restores quality of life to our children. Can someone look me in the eyes and tell me this has to be banned?“, said Valeria Saleth, Emiliano's mother, child who treats his pathologies thanks to the medicinal use of cannabis.
This association is inspired by its Chilean counterpart which, together with Daya Foundation, achieved state authorization to grow and prepare oil with cannabis extract, free, to 4 thousand patients with refractory epilepsy, various types of cancer and chronic non-oncological pain.
During the presentation of the new Argentine NGO, explained the Executive Director of the Daya Foundation, Ana María Gazmuri and the President of Mamá Cultiva, Paulina Bobadilla,
“Many of us get into debt, many families were left on the streets by unscrupulous doctors. In cannabis we find a way and we do not want to sell it to laboratories and that the solution is for some, for those who can pay it. My daughter Javiera goes to school, smile, speaks, sample. Before I had her doped all day. We went into debt and poisoned our daughter. If I have to go to prison I don't care. How can I not help a mother who is going through the same thing??“, Bobadilla pointed out..
Currently, the traditional treatment of refractory epilepsy involves medications with side effects that can lead to death., the mothers commented. In many of these cases, cannabis oil reduces the number and intensity of seizures., relieve pain, improve mood and sleep.
“We had stopped going to social events, to receive visitors at home. my daughter 14 years it took 21 daily pills, 500 after a month and for the neurologist it was fine“, Mariana Quiroga told, member of Mamá Cultiva and Lara's mother. “After giving oil 7 days, crises decreased, the spasms, the tremors. Today he sleeps, I see it connected. We make plans to go out as a family. Greatly improved their quality of life“, he added.
Meanwhile, Gazmuri commented that “cannabis is an effective tool, economical and safe. We already organize talks in Chile to 30.000 people. We must think that the ban denied access to this plant that could have provided relief to thousands of people and was originated by economic interests and social control., health was never a central concern“.
The presentation was coordinated by Luis Osler, director of the Center for Cannabis Culture Studies (CLICCA), who also said that the criminalization of users does not only involve recreational users, but also medicinal, and explained that “Argentine laws do not accompany mothers, but their right to health does accompany them, their right to a better quality of life and above all the right to produce the best medicine for their children”.
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